Announcements and advertisements
This page provides access to selected local (University of Cambridge)
announcement and advertisement newsgroups. Please read the
disclaimer and notes below. Some
background information
about USENET news and the news server may also be of interest.
General access
The links within this section allow anyone to read items in the selected
newsgroups, using any WWW browser. It is not limited to use from computers
within the University unless access restrictions are mentioned explicitly
for a particular group.
Announcements
Careers Service information
The newsgroups in this section are accessible only from computers
within the University of Cambridge.
Job advertisements
Other advertisements
Direct news server access (University of Cambridge only)
- If you are using a WWW browser on a computer within the University of
Cambridge, and
- it has the ability to access the University of Cambridge news
server directly and it is correctly configured to do that, then
- the links in this section will provide direct access (using news: URLs)
to the newsgroups with whatever style (could be anywhere from very basic
to quite sophisticated!) your WWW browser provides.
If selecting these links results in an error message, it most likely means
that your WWW browser does not understand how to access a news server, or it
is not configured to access the University of Cambridge news server, or the
news server rejected the connection because you are running the browser on a
system which is not allowed access to the server. The simple solution if these
links don't work is to use the general-access links in the section above.
Announcements
Careers Service information
Job advertisements
Other advertisements
- The content (including accuracy) of the news articles is the responsibility
of their authors, not the Computing Service (except for official Computing
Service announcements!).
- Many announcements and advertisements are not cancelled immediately when
they are no longer relevant (e.g. advertised item has been sold), though
announcements may be left intentionally as a record of what has happened in the
past.
- There are many other ways in which announcements may be circulated within
the University. For example, scheduled computer downtime is more likely to be
mentioned when you log in to the particular computer, and information about
jobs and events is more likely to be distributed on paper with only a small
amount made available electronically.
University of Cambridge Computing Service; last updated
February 1997