What if my site doesn't carry alt.personals or soc.penpals?
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This article is from the Singles FAQ, by Trygve Lode tlode@nyx.net with numerous contributions by others.
What if my site doesn't carry alt.personals or soc.penpals?
Even if your site doesn't carry a given group, it's still
possible to post to it; fortunately, that's really all you need
to be able to do with a personal ad, since you would normally
be getting responses back in email anyway. A number of
"mail-to-news gateways" exist that will take email messages you
send them and post them to any Usenet group, whether it's on
your system or not (and even if your system only gives you mail
capability and doesn't support news at all).
If you have web access, you can read news and post from
DejaNews, which allows you more to search other people's
personal ads more easily than most newsreaders. If you are
using a newsreader / posting program that allows you to modify
your headers, many if not most will still let you post to a
newsgroup that your site doesn't carry; it may just ask you to
confirm that you really do want to post to the specified
newsgroup and haven't just mistyped it.
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