Once upon a time, "Paddy's Pig"
wrote in alt.binaries.pictures.gardens:

"Paddy's Pig" wrote in message
...

In the meantime he referred me to a free newsreader program which I have
downloaded and installed to read posts on alt.binaries.food. It works, if
a little awkwardly, compared to my preferred system. But it is a reader
only and I cannot post with it.


Well that's half true. I CAN post text if I want to comment on somebody
else's post. But I can't post my own JPEG's or any other binaries. The
name of the program is Grabit. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it but it
didn't cost much.

Try a different server, there are many, I use Agent Premium News which
is Easynews. $2.95 a month for 13GB which is 3x what I need.
I also use Giganews because it is included in my Earthlink account
but it doesn't include ABF
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/

If you can't post what you want it isn't any good. There are a lot of
freeware newsreaders but the Microsoft or Mac standard readers are fine
unless you want a lot of huge binaries.
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilit...sreaders.shtml
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