This is what 3 folks at the murder mystery news group use
http://news.individual.net/

About $12/year.

K Barrett

"John Varigos" wrote in message
om...
Also try installing "free.yottanews.com" which is a very comprehensive
free Usenet provider. Sometimes it takes a while to get on due to traffic
(after all it is free and you get what you pay for ;-)) but it does carry
all postings to ABPO and RGO. Just tried it on my computer and posts are
current.

~John


"K Barrett" wrote in message
. ..
You know you can access Google Groups via the Google homepage, click on
"more" and it should take you to
http://groups.google.com/grphp?hl=en...e=UTF-8&tab=wg

K Barrett

"K Barrett" wrote in message
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Nevermind.

I just realized what you said. Your ISP won't carry usenet anymore, so
how can you get it.

Google groups is the only way I can think of, and (like you say) its
pretty poor. But its free.

K Barrett

"K Barrett" wrote in message
. ..
Download Thunderbird, which is a news reader from (argh) the Mozilla
people. I use it on my Mac ( becasue Safari doesn't have a news feed
on their browser either.)

Its free.

Reka will be along in a second with a link, or google it.

K Barrett

"Pat Brennan" wrote in message
oups.com...
As of 1/1/07 my ISP no longer provides access to a news server.
Obsolete I guess. I did a goggle search on news servers and they seem
to run 5 to 10 bucks a month. The "free" sites just seem to be
hooks into their pay service. I found Goggle Groups through the old
Dejanews, but I am not happy with the interface and no access to the
binary site. Anyone know of any better options?

I guess I would not feel so bad about paying the $100 a year fee if I
was not staring at $120 bill for AOS awards. But wait, AOS is
offering
a special deal for me; give them $150 and I can have membership as
well. I checked out their forum site and found you are not allowed to
talk about the AOS. I tend to avoid clubs with such rules. Best
thing
AOS could do is sell that building and move back into rented office
space in Boston. Not sure what I am going to do next season, but $60
is just plain too much.

Just saw Bob's post and I know I had better download the files and
start studying, but I don't want to, I really don't want to.

Thanks,

Pat