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AOL is dropping USENET Newsgroups.

What alternatives do you recommend?

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On 25 Jan 2005 18:31:55 GMT, lowryter@aol.comnojunk (Lowryter) wrote:
>AOL is dropping USENET Newsgroups.
>
>What alternatives do you recommend?

If you want to keep AOL because you have a lot of friends on there you could
sign on with a Usenet service, I use www.newsreader.com
That's about $10 month and you'd use something like Agent or Free Agent
to read and post to your groups.
Or you could drop AOL all together and sign on with someone like Earthlink and
get all your net services thru them.

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"Lowryter" <lowryter@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
news:20050125133155.15937.00000239@mb-m15.aol.com...
> AOL is dropping USENET Newsgroups.
>
> What alternatives do you recommend?

Drop AOL. I wonder if they'll announce it with the CD's they clog mailboxes
with? Actually, what they're doing is raising prices. Now they don't have to
pay for maintenance and support of USENET, but your monthly bill remains the
same. It's like when Breyers reduced the package size of their ice cream
from 1/2 gallon to 1-1/2 quarts, but didn't lower the price at all. That's a
25 % difference!!! They do what they think they can get away with. Do price
scanners in stores ever err in the customer's favor? Of course not - they're
playing the odds that you'll never notice - and if you do, they'll apologize
till they get blue in the face.

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"Lowryter" <lowryter@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
news:20050125133155.15937.00000239@mb-m15.aol.com...
> AOL is dropping USENET Newsgroups.
>
> What alternatives do you recommend?


News.Individual.NET

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"Lowryter" <lowryter@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
news:20050125133155.15937.00000239@mb-m15.aol.com...
> AOL is dropping USENET Newsgroups.
>
> What alternatives do you recommend?

free.teranews.com has a one-time fee ($5?) and then its free unless you need
to download lots of graphics.

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bob wrote:
> Owamanga <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:sj4dv090n0p8tll4n3au49tjap1utm312n@4ax.com:
>
>
>>>What alternatives do you recommend?
>>
>>*ANYONE*
>>
>
>
> Not necessarily. Some ISPs don't provide USENET at all. Some provide it
> unsupported, but don't promise they'll provide it at any given point in the
> future. There are ISP comparison services on the web that can help you
> figure out which ISPs provide what services.

Charter pipeline provides usenet, but with a speed limit of only
128kbps. That on a 3mbps connection is ludricous. It is useful only for
test groups, not binary. This is fairly typical of ISP provided
usenet these days.

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"John Bean" <waterfoot@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1u58994kcma34$.dlg@waterfoot.net...
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:03:43 -0000, Steven Campbell wrote:
>
> > "Lowryter" <lowryter@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
> > news:20050125133155.15937.00000239@mb-m15.aol.com...
> >> AOL is dropping USENET Newsgroups.
> >>
> >> What alternatives do you recommend?
> >
> >
> > News.Individual.NET
>
> At last, a clue emerges, sadly unnoticed amongst the AOL noise. No
surprise
> there then.

It's free and carries all the groups that I have ever searched for. Plus it
is faster than the usenet supplied by my ISP.

Steven.

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In article <1106709030.458930.300360@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
annika1980@aol.com says...
> BTW, I'm considering putting a sticker on my car that says, "DON'T
> BLAME ME, I VOTED FOR KERRY!"

Why not: "Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Death!"?

Death is very much for capital punishment, I hear.

http://www.cafepress.com/polymath/484592
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On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:59:56 -0000, Steven Campbell wrote:

> "John Bean" <waterfoot@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1u58994kcma34$.dlg@waterfoot.net...
>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:03:43 -0000, Steven Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> "Lowryter" <lowryter@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
>>> news:20050125133155.15937.00000239@mb-m15.aol.com...
>>>> AOL is dropping USENET Newsgroups.
>>>>
>>>> What alternatives do you recommend?
>>>
>>>
>>> News.Individual.NET
>>
>> At last, a clue emerges, sadly unnoticed amongst the AOL noise. No
> surprise
>> there then.
>
> It's free and carries all the groups that I have ever searched for. Plus it
> is faster than the usenet supplied by my ISP.

I already know that, if you looked at the my headers ;-)

--
John Bean

Work is the curse of the drinking classes (Oscar Wilde)

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On 25 Jan 2005 in rec.photo.digital, Lowryter wrote:

> replace it with what?
>
> net zero doent do newsgroups either...I need to have internet dial
> up when I travel

NNTP news server, any ISP:

http://news.individual.net/

Free; no binaries...

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