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March of the Dinosaur
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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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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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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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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Join http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk. It's free. Go to Gardening Discussions Orchids And you'll find us all there ;-) In fact, that's how I read your mail and replies. No, you won't get ABPO, but if you want pictures, join http://www.orchidboard.com It is very good, and also free. Weng |
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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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Pat,
Giganews - it's $8/month auto-debited from my debit card - I never see it or have to think about it and it keeps me from going crazy over missed posts on ABPO. http://www.giganews.com -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org "Pat Brennan" wrote in message oups.com... As of 1/1/07 my ISP no longer provides access to a news server. |
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:30:08 +0000, Weng
wrote: Pat Brennan Wrote: As of 1/1/07 my ISP no longer provides access to a news server. Pat Pat, Join http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk. It's free. Go to Gardening Discussions Orchids And you'll find us all there ;-) For those that Don't KNOW this is the group that is a Mirror of this newsgroup. They used to solicited members/readers from us -- now they have given up and just mirror this group. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids |
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 08:32:07 -0800, "Eric Hunt"
wrote: Pat, Giganews - it's $8/month auto-debited from my debit card - I never see it or have to think about it and it keeps me from going crazy over missed posts on ABPO. http://www.giganews.com -Eric in SF www.orchidphotos.org Ditto -- It is the easiest and least worry some solution. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/orchids |
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March of the Dinosaur
Thanks to everyone for new server ideas.
About the award bills, my mistake, I paid bills yesterday and awards were $40 not $60. I do not know why I thought the price had been raised to $60. I can live with $40 and I am sure the price will go down when AOS moves into the digital age; another topic for another day. Proud owner of a 76 point Bllra Tahoma Glacier 'Green'. Absurd. Now if everyone in Hawaii growing them would give me a buck I'd . . . Pat |
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