Ray B wrote:
OK, the number of posts here and at abpo have been mighty slim. Are we
abandoning newsgroups?


Think it's more like newsgroups are abandoning us..

Naaah. I don't buy that.

If we really want to continue, a relatively cheap subscription to Giganews
would allow us to.

--

Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info!


"Bryan" wrote in message
...
Ray B wrote:
OK, the number of posts here and at abpo have been mighty slim. Are we
abandoning newsgroups?


Think it's more like newsgroups are abandoning us..

Never say die! I've been up to my ears in alligators, that's all. It does
get quiet sometimes, but I really don't want to lose this group of
wonderful people.

Guess I'd better look into Giganews, and figure out how to use it. What's
the other one? Terranews?

Love to all!
Diana

"Ray B" wrote in message
...
Naaah. I don't buy that.

If we really want to continue, a relatively cheap subscription to Giganews
would allow us to.

--

Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info!


"Bryan" wrote in message
...
Ray B wrote:
OK, the number of posts here and at abpo have been mighty slim. Are we
abandoning newsgroups?


Think it's more like newsgroups are abandoning us..

well, despite the rumour that comcr@p was going to kill newsgroups
yesterday, i am still able to post and read. i freely admit to not
knowing how all this works--i'm on gignews, maybe it's going around the
'cr@p...

so! that wilsonara i bought in march and put in s/h grew a new pbulb,
and is now growing a spike.

--j_a

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:43:12 -0400 in unknown wrote:
well, despite the rumour that comcr@p was going to kill newsgroups
yesterday, i am still able to post and read. i freely admit to not
knowing how all this works--i'm on gignews, maybe it's going around the
'cr@p...

If you're paying to use giganews in addition to paying to use comcast,
you would be entitled to sue comcast if they blocked your ability to
reach giganews.

(Or if you want to think in terms of free. comcast had their own
web space for users, but most folks opted for geocities or now
myspace).

so! that wilsonara i bought in march and put in s/h grew a new pbulb,
and is now growing a spike.

I hit a couple months of depression late this summer that
led to neglect of my plants. The response of the onc sharry baby
was to bloom early :-).


--
Chris Dukes
"Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow
prisoners, and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be
applied to my opponent" -- John McCain

usenetmonster.com is much cheaper than giganews, only $3/month, and has
worked flawlessly for me. One quirk with this provider: they have two
servers you can access. The news.usenetmonster.com server was slow for me;
the bignews.usenetmonster.com server is very fast. They have a very easy to
follow instruction guide on their website as to how to set this up, and the
one email question I sent was answered the next day. I'd been with giganews
after verizon dropped newsgroups, but didn't like their high monthly fee so
switched to usenetmonster. It accesses all the orchid groups and everything
else, accepts binary pictures, etc.
Chuck B.

"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
. ..
Guess I'd better look into Giganews, and figure out how to use it. What's
the other one? Terranews?

Good to know, Chuck. Thanks.

--

Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com
Plants, Supplies. Books, Artwork, and lots of Free Info!


"C. Berlin" wrote in message
ster.com...
usenetmonster.com is much cheaper than giganews, only $3/month, and has
worked flawlessly for me. One quirk with this provider: they have two
servers you can access. The news.usenetmonster.com server was slow for
me; the bignews.usenetmonster.com server is very fast. They have a very
easy to follow instruction guide on their website as to how to set this
up, and the one email question I sent was answered the next day. I'd been
with giganews after verizon dropped newsgroups, but didn't like their high
monthly fee so switched to usenetmonster. It accesses all the orchid
groups and everything else, accepts binary pictures, etc.
Chuck B.

"Diana Kulaga" wrote in message
. ..
Guess I'd better look into Giganews, and figure out how to use it. What's
the other one? Terranews?

Cheap access? how about free with more newsgroups than sbc, att, or verison
ever had?
try
http://www.teranews.com/

sometimes they have a one time sign up fee (less than $4) but after that
its free and I've been using them for years.


Grow well and bloom magnificently
dusty

** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

I was using teranews years ago as a way to get ABPO before my own ISP
started showing it. I didn't like it much at all. Pictures from certain
people wouldn't show up. As I recall, that was when Wendy was posting a
lot of pictures and everyone was seeing them but me.
Teranews also took over my computer so that if I posted a message using
a different news server, my messages still came from Teranews if you
looked at the headers.
I suppose I would give in and try it again, if I had no other choice
without spending money every month.

Steve

dusty wrote:
Cheap access? how about free with more newsgroups than sbc, att, or verison
ever had?
try
http://www.teranews.com/

sometimes they have a one time sign up fee (less than $4) but after that
its free and I've been using them for years.


Grow well and bloom magnificently
dusty

** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Ray B wrote:
Naaah. I don't buy that.

If we really want to continue, a relatively cheap subscription to Giganews
would allow us to.

'Relatively cheap' is certainly beyond my means for now.

Then keep posting at Flickr, Tenman. We'll follow the links if you post
them.....

Diana

"tenman" wrote in message
...
Ray B wrote:
Naaah. I don't buy that.

If we really want to continue, a relatively cheap subscription to
Giganews would allow us to.

'Relatively cheap' is certainly beyond my means for now.

hmm. when i read this thread on a real live newsreader, there are
some 10 replies. here on dejagoogle, there are

three.

this could be problematic......

--j_a

16 including yours, JA.

Diana

wrote in message
...
hmm. when i read this thread on a real live newsreader, there are
some 10 replies. here on dejagoogle, there are

three.

this could be problematic......

--j_a

wrote:
hmm. when i read this thread on a real live newsreader, there are
some 10 replies. here on dejagoogle, there are

three.

this could be problematic......

--j_a

I'll tell you one thing, if I had to read this (or any) newsgroup on
Google, I WOULD give up.
I think we can hold most of our current group together for a long time.
As it is, half (or maybe most) of the computer users in the world don't
understand newsgroups. For someone who has never tried newsgroups, if
they have to seek out Giganews or anything similar, what are the chances
they will bother? Few will. Far fewer than when ISPs were expected to
offer their own news server.
More that a few times, I have mentioned or forwarded something from a
newsgroup and the person wants to know the URL so they can join too. I
have to explain that newsgroups are not a web site.

Steve

On Oct 27, 4:14*pm, wrote:
hmm. *when i read this thread on a real live newsreader, there are
some 10 replies. *here on dejagoogle, there are

three.

this could be problematic......

--j_a

---and now there are 16. oi.

as for the giganews thing--no, i don't think we're paying. i think my
housemate (the resident geek) downloaded a copy for free when i asked
for a newsreader.

--j_a