contacting news group

"Barb" wrote in message
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Yes, I had googled and learned that other sources are taking the place of
newsgroups. I'd been in this group along time and really hate to give it
up. I don't do facebook or twitter and don't know what forums are
replacing this nice newsgroup.

Barb

This is one of the best in my opinion:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/cats/

We had our share of spammers and insulters but I was willing to overlook all
that-you're not forced to read every post. Looks like most of the spammers
got tired of us, anyway.

Barb

Kelly Greene wrote:
"dgk" wrote in message
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Newsgroups as a whole are dying because of various forums and
facebook and such. But as long as some of us use it, it will still
be here until the corporations decide that they don't want to spend
money on it. My ISP used to have their own newgroup servers but they
ditched them and made anyone who wanted to use them use Giganews.
Well, they got us a discount for Giganews.

I read on another Forum that all the ISP's stopped providing Usenet
NGs because of the cost and time involved with people complaining
about out people and spammers.

Yes. And this is ridiculous. A newsgroup is like the street. If someone you
never saw before shouts some obscenity at you from across the street, whose
fault is that? Should you go to the city planner and comoplain about his
choice of street location? - Of course not. Neither should you complasin to
the service provider when some idiot writes you a message that you don't
like. I don't know why the service providers even bother to answer those
kinds of complaints.

"Bill Graham" wrote in message
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Kelly Greene wrote:
"dgk" wrote in message
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Newsgroups as a whole are dying because of various forums and
facebook and such. But as long as some of us use it, it will still
be here until the corporations decide that they don't want to spend
money on it. My ISP used to have their own newgroup servers but they
ditched them and made anyone who wanted to use them use Giganews.
Well, they got us a discount for Giganews.

I read on another Forum that all the ISP's stopped providing Usenet
NGs because of the cost and time involved with people complaining
about out people and spammers.

Yes. And this is ridiculous. A newsgroup is like the street. If someone
you never saw before shouts some obscenity at you from across the street,
whose fault is that? Should you go to the city planner and comoplain about
his choice of street location? - Of course not. Neither should you
complasin to the service provider when some idiot writes you a message
that you don't like. I don't know why the service providers even bother to
answer those kinds of complaints.

There are free NSPs and I use them since our ISP dropped Usenet. I'm sure
there were people complaining to them over the least little thing.

Kelly Greene wrote:
"Bill Graham" wrote in message
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Kelly Greene wrote:
"dgk" wrote in message
...

Newsgroups as a whole are dying because of various forums and
facebook and such. But as long as some of us use it, it will still
be here until the corporations decide that they don't want to spend
money on it. My ISP used to have their own newgroup servers but
they ditched them and made anyone who wanted to use them use
Giganews. Well, they got us a discount for Giganews.

I read on another Forum that all the ISP's stopped providing Usenet
NGs because of the cost and time involved with people complaining
about out people and spammers.

Yes. And this is ridiculous. A newsgroup is like the street. If
someone you never saw before shouts some obscenity at you from
across the street, whose fault is that? Should you go to the city
planner and comoplain about his choice of street location? - Of
course not. Neither should you complasin to the service provider
when some idiot writes you a message that you don't like. I don't
know why the service providers even bother to answer those kinds of
complaints.

There are free NSPs and I use them since our ISP dropped Usenet. I'm
sure there were people complaining to them over the least little
thing.

Yes. My wife likes to feed squirls at rest stops along the highway and parks
and other places. but people complain that the little creatures come up to
them and look for food, so the county traps them and euthanizes them....
What a dumb world we live in.......

My ISP is IO Cablevision in NY. I am getting our newsgroup. At first it
seemed to have shrunk so much I almost downloaded a different provider for
newsgroups.

Barb

"Barb" wrote in message
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Yes, I had googled and learned that other sources are taking the place of
newsgroups. I'd been in this group along time and really hate to give it
up. I don't do facebook or twitter and don't know what forums are
replacing this nice newsgroup.

..........AFAIC there's no substitute for low-tech newsgroups for
information. Don't have to wait forever for those frellin' facebook/twitter
links to load or lots of generic pix, or bland useless articles for 6 year
olds who've never had any pets.

REally, it's up to the people who use the NG to keep it going. See a cat
food recall? Post it. Have a note on a new vet procedure for cats? Post
it. Interesting research? Post it.

.........At some point or other I do expect most ISPs to dump access to NGs.
Everyone wants services and apps and whatever for their new toy phones.
They barely care about those of us who still have landlines for phone
access!

buglady
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