RADP

[KAMLEM]

I have just started reading trip reports and I often see references to RADP boards. What is this?

 

[Richyams]

RADP is a newsgroup. Newsgroups are a different part of the internet. It is the recreation.arts.disney.parks newsgroup.

You need a newsreader to see it.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", Karl Marx,This has failed every time it has been tried, why do we still have liberals?

 

[RobDoc]

RADP stands for Recreation.Arts.Disney.Parks and is an internet newsgroup. You can easily access it through your email program. RADP is an unmoderated forum (it is NOT a website- more like an email exchange) and does get a little wild and wooly at times. There is some good information there, but also some off-the-wall-cross-posted stuff that does not belong on any Disney forum.

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[KAMLEM]

What is a newsreader? How would you access it through Email?

 

[Richyams]

Internet 101

Many years ago the internet was born. It was originally used for government and educational institutions. There were three parts.

IRC: Internet Relay Chat. There are hundreds of thousands of chatrooms that are not HTTP based. They need to be accessed with client software. mIRC is a popular and free IRC client. These are live chatrooms. Some can be moderated, many are not.

Newsgroups: These are a bulleitan board typr thing with no frills. They are just messages in different catagories. There are newsgroups pertaining to just about anything you could ever imagine. Disney, porn, singles in Nome Alaska, the council race in Tobago. Averything. To acess them youd also need client software. Outlook Express or most mail programs can access them today, but I would suggest a free program like FreAgent, it is available at freeagent software


These first two were the most used and most popular part of the internet. Think about it, who in the 70's or early 80's had a web page? Or the ability to use the kind of bandwidth a web page needed.

Those first two require very little bandwidth and are still very popular and very used.

The third and newly popular part is the World Wide Web, URLs or HTTP, whatever you want to call it.

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs", Karl Marx,This has failed every time it has been tried, why do we still have liberals?

 

[RobDoc]

Google (a search engine) provides an easy link to newsgroups.

Here is a link to <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&group=rec.arts.disney.parks">Google's RADP Reader</a>. Enjoy!

 

[dbond]

Wow! That brings back some memories. I see that google has now replaced the good ole deja.news. I haven't even thought twice about RADP since I discovered these boards almost 2 years ago. Try them if you dare, but buyer beware. It's a jungle out there.

 

[KAMLEM]

Thanks, everyone!

 

[KimOhio]

Richyams I have to say your explaination
of the internet was great I have never understood it completly till now thank you.