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How to get onto urg
I left a message on another thread about this, after being told off by Mr R Hinge for viewing this newsgroup via Garden Banter. Please could someone tell me how to access urg? I've tried Googling it, but altho I get a home page it won't let me proceed. MY ISP is aol - don't know whether that's a problem.
P.S. I found Garden Banter by accident and am wondering why it is so infra dig. The posts from other parts of the world are often informative and sometimes very amusing. |
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from Charlie Pridham contains these words: again your ISP may have this listed and you can subscribe for free or you can buy annual subscription from outfits like News.Individual. Nope - not AOL any longer. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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from Martin contains these words: On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:23:43 GMT, Rusty_Hinge wrote: The message from Charlie Pridham contains these words: again your ISP may have this listed and you can subscribe for free or you can buy annual subscription from outfits like News.Individual. Nope - not AOL any longer. Why can't an AOL subscriber buy a subscription from news.individual.net ? I was referring to the 'your ISP', but I have a sort-of dim memory of someone complaining that they couldn't get access to Usenet through AOL. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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On Nov 26, 9:42*pm, Janet Conroy Janet.Conroy.
wrote: Janet Conroy;823492 Wrote: I left a message on another thread about this, after being told off by Mr R Hinge for viewing this newsgroup via Garden Banter. *Please could someone tell me how to access urg? *I've tried Googling it, but altho I get a home page it won't let me proceed. *MY ISP is aol - don't know whether that's a problem. AOL is a problem but I doubt it is preventing you using Google groups. P.S. I found Garden Banter by accident and am wondering why it is so infra dig. *The posts from other parts of the world are often informative and sometimes very amusing. Here I am, replying to myself. *I've tried twice to get a response to this. *Please don't tick me off or write snotty comments when I mention something I've seen elsewhere on GardenBanter if none of you urglers is prepared to give me guidance on how to access urg other than via GB. GardenBanter effectively steals the discussions taking place on a pre- existing Usenet group uk.rec.gardening Some people find this incredibly annoying and take it out on posters from GB whose content is reflected onto Usenet. You should be able to access urg via Google groups even if you don't have a proper newsreader. http://groups.google.com/ and specific for urg. http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.gardening/topics or this particular thread http://groups.google.com/group/uk.re...6c49e93ebe662# Google groups is also a bit infra-dig but it is useful when you are mobile and not at a machine that has direct Usenet news access. Increasingly ISPs are pulling Usenet servers offline as not cost effective (ie profitable). Regards, Martin Brown |
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from Martin Brown contains these words: Google groups is also a bit infra-dig but it is useful when you are mobile and not at a machine that has direct Usenet news access. Increasingly ISPs are pulling Usenet servers offline as not cost effective (ie profitable). Since the Zetgods use Usenet, I am reliably informed that as long it remains under the same management/ownership, the news server is secure, if not sacred. -- Rusty Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk Separator in search of a sig |
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Janet Conroy writes
Janet Conroy;823492 Wrote: I left a message on another thread about this, after being told off by Mr R Hinge for viewing this newsgroup via Garden Banter. Please could someone tell me how to access urg? I've tried Googling it, but altho I get a home page it won't let me proceed. MY ISP is aol - don't know whether that's a problem. P.S. I found Garden Banter by accident and am wondering why it is so infra dig. I don't like gardenbanter because it is enhancing (1) its own reputation by using stuff I've posted to urg without asking my permission. (1) matter of opinion, of course. It might well be better off without my posts! The posts from other parts of the world are often informative and sometimes very amusing. There are newsgroups from all over the world accessible with a newsreader - including all the newsgroups you see on gardenbanter! Here I am, replying to myself. I've tried twice to get a response to this. Please don't tick me off or write snotty comments when I mention something I've seen elsewhere on GardenBanter if none of you urglers is prepared to give me guidance on how to access urg other than via GB. There's no problem with your continuing to access urg via gardenbanter if you can cope with the inconvenience, but just remember that accessing urg is what you are doing, and that most of us don't use gardenbanter, so when you talk about things elsewhere on the gardenbanter site it means nothing to us. -- Kay |
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Janet Conroy wrote:
Here I am, replying to myself. I've tried twice to get a response to this. Please don't tick me off or write snotty comments when I mention something I've seen elsewhere on GardenBanter if none of you urglers is prepared to give me guidance on how to access urg other than via GB. As others have said, you need to be able to use a newsreader. I have just followed the instructions he- http://news.aioe.org/spip.php?article77 to set up a (free) account with nntp.aioe.org - you do not have to register with them at all. I then downloaded their group list, found uk.rec.gardening and posted this reply. Took about 10-15 minutes. If you don't have Thunderbird (a free email and news client), you could download it, or alternatively set up Outlook Express (which I suspect already lurks on your machine) but I have no information on how to use that program. Good to see someone wanting to get away from the webpage stuff - good luck. |
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On 27 Nov, 12:06, geo wrote:
or alternatively set up Outlook Express (which I suspect already lurks on your machine) but I have no information on how to use that program. If you want to use OE, go and find OE quotefix, and wrap it roundf OE. It fixes the top-posting behaviour and also sorts out some other shortcomings. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ |
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Janet Conroy wrote:
Here I am, replying to myself. I've tried twice to get a response to this. Please don't tick me off or write snotty comments when I mention something I've seen elsewhere on GardenBanter if none of you urglers is prepared to give me guidance on how to access urg other than via GB. As others have said, you need to be able to use a newsreader. I have just followed the instructions he- http://news.aioe.org/spip.php?article77 to set up a (free) account with nntp.aioe.org - you do not have to register with them at all. I then downloaded their group list, found uk.rec.gardening and posted this reply. Took about 10-15 minutes. If you don't have Thunderbird (a free email and news client), you could download it, or alternatively set up Outlook Express (which I suspect already lurks on your machine) but I have no information on how to use that program. Good to see someone wanting to get away from the webpage stuff - good luck. |
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Sorry that arrived multiple times - the first post via nntp.aioe.org did not
appear to get out so I repeated the exercise with a second free news server. Anyway - the point is it only takes a few minutes to do... Geo |
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Blimey - I seem to have gone from no response to a deluge in an instant. I was OK with the first couple of replies but now I'm blinded by all the techy stuff. I will try to do the newsgroup thing, but I'm still unclear as to why GardenBanter is so hated by some posters. Is it because you have paid some cash to access a kosher newsgroup?
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