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Hey guys.

I know I skip around and seem to answer only my posts and a couple
others when I have the chance. I am not willfully ignoring some or
others but my regular ISP had dropped newservice a couple months ago
and I'm either newsgrouping via google or AOL and I just can't stand
AOL. And google makes it horrible to see what's been said, where and I
miss things frequently. So until I get a new ISP, I'm stuck with a
hit/miss.

And Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Grace

On 27 Nov 2003 07:52:32 -0800, (GraceCat) wrote:

Hey guys.

I know I skip around and seem to answer only my posts and a couple
others when I have the chance. I am not willfully ignoring some or
others but my regular ISP had dropped newservice a couple months ago
and I'm either newsgrouping via google or AOL and I just can't stand
AOL. And google makes it horrible to see what's been said, where and I
miss things frequently. So until I get a new ISP, I'm stuck with a
hit/miss.

And Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

What you need is a good standard news server you don't have to pay for
and that is not connected with your ISP. See
http://news.individual.net/ - it's a service of Freie Universität
Berlin and supersedes the well known and respected News.CIS.DFN.DE
feed. You register at the web page, then direct your standard news
client to the server they give you. It works will all standard news
clients - not a web interface like groups.google.com - no ads.


T.E.D. - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)

"Ted Davis" wrote in message
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On 27 Nov 2003 07:52:32 -0800, (GraceCat) wrote:

Hey guys.

I know I skip around and seem to answer only my posts and a couple
others when I have the chance. I am not willfully ignoring some or
others but my regular ISP had dropped newservice a couple months ago
and I'm either newsgrouping via google or AOL and I just can't stand
AOL. And google makes it horrible to see what's been said, where and I
miss things frequently. So until I get a new ISP, I'm stuck with a
hit/miss.

And Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

What you need is a good standard news server you don't have to pay for
and that is not connected with your ISP. See
http://news.individual.net/ - it's a service of Freie Universität
Berlin and supersedes the well known and respected News.CIS.DFN.DE
feed. You register at the web page, then direct your standard news
client to the server they give you. It works will all standard news
clients - not a web interface like groups.google.com - no ads.

Well, I can vouch for News.CIS.DFN.DE. They are better than my newsfeed from
my ISP! And if news.individual.net is even better.... well, I'd thoroughly
recommend them.

Yowie

"Yowie" wrote in message
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"Ted Davis" wrote in message
...
What you need is a good standard news server you don't have to pay for
and that is not connected with your ISP. See
http://news.individual.net/ - it's a service of Freie Universität
Berlin and supersedes the well known and respected News.CIS.DFN.DE
feed. You register at the web page, then direct your standard news
client to the server they give you. It works will all standard news
clients - not a web interface like groups.google.com - no ads.

Well, I can vouch for News.CIS.DFN.DE. They are better than my newsfeed
from
my ISP! And if news.individual.net is even better.... well, I'd thoroughly
recommend them.

I'm with the Germans too, I think quite a few of us here are
They're good!
--
:: lewe
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lewemi at yahoo dot se || cat pics: photos.yahoo.com/lewemi

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:04:56 +1100, "Yowie"
wrote:

"Ted Davis" wrote in message
.. .
On 27 Nov 2003 07:52:32 -0800, (GraceCat) wrote:

Hey guys.

I know I skip around and seem to answer only my posts and a couple
others when I have the chance. I am not willfully ignoring some or
others but my regular ISP had dropped newservice a couple months ago
and I'm either newsgrouping via google or AOL and I just can't stand
AOL. And google makes it horrible to see what's been said, where and I
miss things frequently. So until I get a new ISP, I'm stuck with a
hit/miss.

And Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

What you need is a good standard news server you don't have to pay for
and that is not connected with your ISP. See
http://news.individual.net/ - it's a service of Freie Universität
Berlin and supersedes the well known and respected News.CIS.DFN.DE
feed. You register at the web page, then direct your standard news
client to the server they give you. It works will all standard news
clients - not a web interface like groups.google.com - no ads.

Well, I can vouch for News.CIS.DFN.DE. They are better than my newsfeed from
my ISP! And if news.individual.net is even better.... well, I'd thoroughly
recommend them.

If you had News.CIS.DFN.DE before the change, and are still using it,
you *are* using the new service. That address is now given only to
users of a different service, but the old users were switched over
automatically so we didn't have to change our configuration settings.

For a long time I resisted using a non local service because it
consumes unnecessary resources, especially transAtlantic bandwidth,
but when my employer (and supposedly primary ISP) cur back the number
of groups they carried to zero, I had to do something, and something
that I could use both at home and at work. It's a long distance call
to my employer, and I found that for the same money I paid for
flat-rate access to that exchange, I could get another ISP with a
local number form home, I went with them, but couldn't access their
news server from work via Ethernet - I kept them because I get a
slightly faster and considerably more reliable connection than the LD
call to work, but switched my usenet service to the free German
service. I've had no complaints since then, except when my office PC
crashes or there is a power failure there and I can't transfer my
newsrc file back an forth to keep the home and office installations in
sync.


T.E.D. - e-mail must contain "T.E.D." or my .sig in the body)

Yowie wrote:
"Ted Davis" wrote in message
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On 27 Nov 2003 07:52:32 -0800, (GraceCat) wrote:

Hey guys.

I know I skip around and seem to answer only my posts and a couple
others when I have the chance. I am not willfully ignoring some or
others but my regular ISP had dropped newservice a couple months ago
and I'm either newsgrouping via google or AOL and I just can't stand
AOL. And google makes it horrible to see what's been said, where
and I miss things frequently. So until I get a new ISP, I'm stuck
with a hit/miss.

And Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

What you need is a good standard news server you don't have to pay
for and that is not connected with your ISP. See
http://news.individual.net/ - it's a service of Freie Universität
Berlin and supersedes the well known and respected News.CIS.DFN.DE
feed. You register at the web page, then direct your standard news
client to the server they give you. It works will all standard news
clients - not a web interface like groups.google.com - no ads.

Well, I can vouch for News.CIS.DFN.DE. They are better than my
newsfeed from my ISP! And if news.individual.net is even better....
well, I'd thoroughly recommend them.

Yowie

I also use news.individual.net very handy if you connect to the net using
different ISPs.
--
Adrian
A House Is Not A Home, Without A Cat.