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March of the Dinosaur
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 |
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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 . .. 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 |
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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 . .. 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 |
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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 . .. 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 |
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:24:33 -0800, K Barrett wrote:
This is what 3 folks at the murder mystery news group use http://news.individual.net/ About $12/year. As do I, but you don't get APBO for $12. Bob |
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There's a murder mystery ng? Hmm!
Diana |
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But they don't talk about mysteries. They talk about everything else *but*
mysteries. Sure they are a resource for oddball information like this, but if you want to discuss mysteries you are SOL. K "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message .. . There's a murder mystery ng? Hmm! Diana |
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Robert Lorenzini wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 14:24:33 -0800, K Barrett wrote: This is what 3 folks at the murder mystery news group use http://news.individual.net/ About $12/year. As do I, but you don't get APBO for $12. Bob Yeah, it says right on the opening page "no binaries". I've been lucky so far. Years ago Adelphia switched to offering newsgroups through Giganews at no extra charge. Adelphia is gone, divided up by others. Our area was taken over by Time Warner, the people who offer Road Runner. I don't know why, and I don't know how long it will last, but my Adelphia address is still what I use and the newsgroups still work the same. I assume some day, I will be told that my Adelphia address is changing to a RR address. When that day comes, will I still get access to the same newsgroups including ABPO? I guess I'll just ask here and now. Somebody here must have been with Time Warner for a while and have their Road runner mail address and access to newsgroups. How is their service? Do you get ABPO? Steve |
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