Did'nt know where to post this,so i'm asking here. I have Verizon & there discontinue News readers. Is there a good free newsreader you can suggest ?
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Can i ask here ?
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news.eternal-september.org so long as you do not need binaries
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ditto. freenews aint bad but i have trouble posting at times
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aioe.org is another, and no binaries
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A newsreader is a program on your computer, so there's no way for an ISP to discontinue it. You must mean news SERVER. Some other posters have suggested alternative servers, such as aioe.org.
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As somebody else pointed out already. you mean "news server":
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(10 Euros/year)
Each may carry newsgroups that the other doesn't. Neither carries binaries -- and if you don't know what they are it won't matter to you.
Perce
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LOL
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If you want binaries the only one I know of is
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it is free but they have to have a one time fee of about 4 bucks to do a check to make sure you are 18 or over. Others will suggest non binary groups. You do know about search engines?
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Google 'Groups' works just fine for me, has for years. I have Verizon DSL, running an iMac with Snow Leopard OS and access Google via browser Safari, or Firefox. M$ 'Bing' browser is kind of neat, but I haven't tried it for newsgroup access yet. All the moaning and groaning about newsgroup access in this NG seems to me just some facet of Microsoft misery or maybe just bad information.
Joe
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"Bing" is not a browser. It is a search "engine"
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Nothing to do with Micro$oft: I don't use a Windozzze machine to access newsgroups. I will tolerate Google for old messages that are no longer on the news server to which I have access (eternal-september retains messages for 6 months, I think; news.individual.net for longer), but for current discussions I hate Google just as much as I hate accessing my emails via a Web browser. Newsreaders are the thing for reading newsgroup messages.
Perce
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I'm also using Eternal September, and very pleased with it. Here is a URL for you:
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Oops...you're right.
Joe
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"desgnr" wrote in news:h7j7o4$snm$1 @adenine.netfront.net:
The astraweb newsserver wasn't yet mentioned. It is very good, has binaries as well, but it is not free. I paid $10.00 for the right to download 25GB of stuff (headers are free). There is as yet no time limit for the download. I have used about 1 GB in the past year.
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If you want binaries, giganews.com for $2.99 a month
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You have to change the oil in them twice a year.
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"Ed Pawlowski" wrote in news:Fd2dnSiXDcGaSQDXnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
...which brings us back to the post of switching from synthetic back to conventional standard oil.
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Just to point out that there is something wrong with the OP's question. Verizon has not provided any access to the alt hierarchy for about a year now; only access to the Big 8 hierarchies and the 0.verizon hierarchy. So how is the OP posting to ALT.home.repair if he/she has no usenet access other than Verizon?
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Han wrote in news:Xns9C79D271241E7ikkezelf@207.246.207.166:
You need to check out some of the alt.binaries.x's :-)