Can I read Oxnet from outside Oxford?
ox.* groups are only carried on the server news.ox.ac.uk and that only accepts readers in the .ox.ac.uk domain. It is possible to read Oxnet from a CompSoc account (see http://www.ox.compsoc.net/) but anyone eligible for a CompSoc account must be eligible for a University, college or departmental account in any case. If you have an .ox.ac.uk account but are physically outwith the city, what you want is David Ball’s comprehensive guide at http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~david/news/, which should tell you most things you need to know. There is an oxbridge.* hierarchy accessible to those at Cambridge University, although ‘hierarchy’ is a rather grand name for it, consisting as it does of oxbridge.tat and oxbridge.misc; the latter gets no posts. Ever. The former gets huge numbers of posts. All the time. They’re both the result of experiments in crossposting in December 1996 when the news managers at either end gave in to the pressure and created them for readers in the .ox.ac.uk and .cam.ac.uk
