Derald wrote:
Nad R wrote:

What a waste of effort. When people learn how to use a newsreader
and have access to tens of thousands of forums with just one
specialized news reader with a news group provider. They will learn
much more than gardening or cooking than using those clunky things
called "Web Browsers".

+1!!
I participate in a couple of web-based forums on the Gardenweb site
(participation made possible by "Adblock" and "Betterprivacy")
because they are local to me and the corresponding usernet newsgroups
have no meaningful traffic. However, on the whole, the experience is
not a good one because the software does not thread messages.
Increasingly, ISPs are dropping their newsreading services and making
it necessary for users to find a third party provider. Most of the
free ones of those do not provide access to binary newsgroups.
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Derald

I'm accessing this NG via eternal-september's servers , but my main news
server is Teranews free . After a $3.95 setup fee , it's free, and they do
provide access to binaries - 50 Mb/day download limit , but I've only hit
that maybe 2-3 times in something like 4 years .

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Snag
Learning keeps
you young !