Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums as
Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.

Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

FireBrick said:

Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums as
Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.

Why not just get a backup newsserver? Motzarella is free, and carries this
group.
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Eggs

-A little bit of pain never hurt anyone

Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

Never heard of it Eggs.
will check it out, thanks again.


"Eggs Zachtly" wrote in message
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FireBrick said:

Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums
as
Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.

Why not just get a backup newsserver? Motzarella is free, and carries this
group.
--

Eggs

-A little bit of pain never hurt anyone

Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

FireBrick said:

Never heard of it Eggs.

There's plenty of free newsservers out there, some better than others.
That's one that I use as a backup, for when my ISP's server is down.

will check it out, thanks again.

No problem. Good luck. =)
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Eggs

-How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.

Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

I use Motzarella.org too. Works fine.
Tomes

"FireBrick" wrote in message
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Never heard of it Eggs.
will check it out, thanks again.


"Eggs Zachtly" wrote in message
...
FireBrick said:

Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums
as
Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.

Why not just get a backup newsserver? Motzarella is free, and carries
this
group.
--

Eggs

-A little bit of pain never hurt anyone

Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

FireBrick wrote:
Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums
as Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.


I often use Google groups.

Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

Frank said:

FireBrick wrote:
Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums
as Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.

I often use Google groups.

Why? G2 sucks big time.

- compared to a newsreader, G2's interface is terrible

- G2 provides no filtering of all of the G2 sourced spam & hipcrime &
anonymized trolls

- G2's topic threading is very poor - nonexistent

- G2 doesn't carry a lot of useful usenet groups

- because there's so much G2 sourced spam & hipcrime & other
undesirables, many people filter /all/ G2 posters, meaning that many of
the people who could help with a problem don't even see a GGer's post

- G2 tends to induce some poor posting practices, such as top posting
and/or untrimmed bottom posting

- G2 exposes the user's connectivity IP and as well as a good email
address in the From, which bothers those with privacy concerns

- G2 doesn't provide an autosig or autosigtrimming function

Screw Google Groups. When they took over the DejaNews archive, that was a
good thing. When they tried to make it look like /they/ were the end-all of
USENET, and started a web portal (trying to make it look like they created
all of the groups, when in fact they're simply a web-portal to a protocol
that's been around longer than the www) they blew it.
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Eggs

-Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than standing in a
garage makes you a car.

Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

FireBrick wrote:
Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums
as Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.


This is from a reply to the same question on another group -

The following brief list of free text news servers is in alphabetical
order without editorial comment. It's a short list. Check out the
servers and decide for yourself which one is best for you. No one knows
what works for you better than you do.


AIOE http://news.aioe.org/

Albasani http://albasani.net/index.html.en

CNNTP http://www.cnntp.org/cnntp

ETT http://news.ett.com.ua/

Motzarella http://motzarella.org/

Solani http://news.solani.org/

Tornevall http://news.tornevall.net/

Usenet4all http://www.usenet4all.se (blocks all posts from Google)

--
Art

Comcast is dropping Newsgroups
 

Eggs Zachtly wrote:

Frank said:
FireBrick wrote:
Sure hope you guys can suggest some helpful question/answer type forums
as Comcrap is dropping Newsgroups in a few days.

So the great help I've gotten from this newsgroups will be unavailable.

Any free 'gardening forums' you guys can suggest?

You gals also...don't want to sound....non PC.

I often use Google groups.

Why? G2 sucks big time.

- compared to a newsreader, G2's interface is terrible

- G2 provides no filtering of all of the G2 sourced spam & hipcrime &
anonymized trolls

- G2's topic threading is very poor - nonexistent

- G2 doesn't carry a lot of useful usenet groups

- because there's so much G2 sourced spam & hipcrime & other
undesirables, many people filter /all/ G2 posters, meaning that many of
the people who could help with a problem don't even see a GGer's post

- G2 tends to induce some poor posting practices, such as top posting
and/or untrimmed bottom posting

- G2 exposes the user's connectivity IP and as well as a good email
address in the From, which bothers those with privacy concerns

- G2 doesn't provide an autosig or autosigtrimming function

Eggs, right on!


Screw Google Groups. When they took over the DejaNews archive, that was a
good thing. When they tried to make it look like /they/ were the end-all of
USENET, and started a web portal (trying to make it look like they created
all of the groups, when in fact they're simply a web-portal to a protocol
that's been around longer than the www) they blew it.

100% on "they blew it" and then ruined it...


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Eggs

-Going to church doesn't make you a Christian, any more than standing in a
garage makes you a car.