OT - AOL users
 

....not that there's many who use newsgroups..

http://help.channels.aol.com/article...cleId= 218626

AOL are discontinuing newsgroup access.

May I mention that there are free news servers around, namely
www.usnetzone.com and http://www.individual.net/

You need to sign up with them and get a login name and passwod and then
access your normal groups as usual.

I don't know how you access them locally (VIA AOL) , but these need to be
accessed via a newsreader such as Microsoft Outlook Express or
Mozilla/Thunderbird or any number of free servers available via google

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Phil L wrote:
...not that there's many who use newsgroups..


http://help.channels.aol.com/article...cleId= 218626

AOL are discontinuing newsgroup access.

May I mention that there are free news servers around, namely
www.usnetzone.com and http://www.individual.net/

You need to sign up with them and get a login name and passwod and
then access your normal groups as usual.

I don't know how you access them locally (VIA AOL) , but these need
to be accessed via a newsreader such as Microsoft Outlook Express
or
Mozilla/Thunderbird or any number of free servers available via
google

No panic: it's only AOL's own lame newsreader which is going down.
I've asked their help line, and we can still use AOL to access the
others, such as the common German-server+OE combination.

Mike.