Mercury, News-Gopher gateway server

gopher://gopher.msu.edu:3441/

Mercury offers USENET news to Gopher clients. Users can read news in the order it was received at the news server, or in subject-threaded order. Subjects are sorted in alphabetical order, and articles within a subject are sorted in the order they were received by the news server. Mercury also returns a 'bookmark' containing the identifier of the last article currently available in the current group. Keep in mind that Mercury is a read-only gateway--posting is not possible on this server. Experimental service as of December, 1994. It's an extermely busy site (130 000 calls per day as of December, 1994.)

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