Maybe goodbye
James H Sweetland
new system, they have decided to drop all hosting of newsgroups.
In their infinite wisdom,and in keeping with their usual
approach to customer service, they have made no suggestions, other
than to indicate that many ISPs and websites do host newsgroups.
I am aware of a couple. But, anybody have any suggestions?
Notably, I'd like to hear from those who are especially happy
with their provider, or especially unhappy with one.
Thanks/
===============
James Sweetland, Pigasus Enterprises
Books, maps, prints, playing cards and all manner of printed material of the
middle ages and renaissance.
Fubar of the HillPeople
aioe.org. Its free and it works OK.
Fubar etc.
"James H Sweetland" <swee...@csd.uwm.edu> wrote in message
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Carl Heinz
I've seen several free services in the past, but don't recall their names. I
suspect that Google might pop something.
Forte ( www.forteinc.com) has a fee based usenet service. Fortunately,
Charter continues to have an nntp server which sometimes fails on weekends.
But, at least they've continued the service.
James, we'd really miss your logs and hope you're able to continue them.
Do you want me to mention you to Michelle Amsbury as being a guest vendor?
This is usually only for two weekends in sites they've allocated for guest
vendors so I don't think stakeout would be a requirement. There's only one
book vendor who specializes in costume books and patterns. There used to be a
San Francisco based vendor that we sometimes saw when being guested at the
Estrella War near Pheonix, but we've not been there for several years and, as
I recall, he was retiring even back then.
Carl
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Carl Heinz
cfhe...@charter.net
(Remove number)
Carl Heinz
wrote:
Talk about concidence? Just found the following in the Agent news group.
Don't know if they carry binaries, but if that's not a problem--:
Christopher A. Lee wrote, in
<1fs6c5puengplh0dr...@4ax.com>
on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:58:24 -0400:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:37:38 +0200, Martin <m...@address.invalid> wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:34:51 -0400, Peter Black <no...@none.us> wrote:
> >
> >>More and more ISP's are dropping usenet service. More and more free
> >>usenet servers are showing up.
> >>
> >>http://www.eternal-september.org
> >>http://www.albasani.net
> >>http://www.aioe.org
> >
> >All three offer a limited service. None carry binaries.
>
> A lot of people filter on these domains because they are also troll
> haven.
>
> >>are all free, all carry this newsgroup. There are more.
I wouldn't recommend aioe, it drops a lot of posts in high-volume
groups. It also has only about two weeks retention.
Neither Eternal-September nor Albasani gives me any more garbage than
does, for instance, news.individual.net. Albasini has posts back to
mid-September last year, E-S to mid-May this year.
--
Nick Spalding
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2GB RAM, 320GB NTFS HD, Video Nvidia GeForce 7900GS LCD 1024x768x75Hz
Len Gerstel
> Just received a note from the university--in the switch to their
> new system, they have decided to drop all hosting of newsgroups.
> In their infinite wisdom,and in keeping with their usual
> approach to customer service, they have made no suggestions, other
> than to indicate that many ISPs and websites do host newsgroups.
>
> I am aware of a couple. But, anybody have any suggestions?
> Notably, I'd like to hear from those who are especially happy
> with their provider, or especially unhappy with one.
James,
Please don't go. We will really miss your inside the ropes view. I
really enjoy reading yours and Michelle's accounts of what goes into
things to produce the wonderful events that we escape to.
That being said, how about Google Groups? Not only do they carry most
newsgroups, they also host many discussion groups. I am on 6 non
newsgroup discussion groups that are hosted by Google, along with
monitoring alt.fairs.renaissance through it.
The main Google Groups page is at:
http://groups.google.com/?hl=en
and here is the page for this group:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fairs.renaissance/topics?hl=en
Once you set things up, you can get new posts mailed to you either as
they are posted, a daily (if there are any posts that day)
compilation, or you can just access it from the Google home page under
More-Groups.
Len
Michele/Columbina/Stupina
I use google groups to read AFR, have for years. It works ok and it's
free and already accessible.
Good luck.
Michele/Stupina/Columbina
None
I know afr is pretty much a dying group, but some of us old timers
still subscribe to it!
-selena
On Oct 1, 9:11 am, "Michele/Columbina/Stupina" <ptpg...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Duncan O Strathclyde
I have been using Google Groups for AFR for several years, work well
and forward posts to my regular email account.
Storey Weaver
I've been lurking here with Google Groups for several years, rarely
posting because I have so little to post. I've read and enjoyed every
"Travels with the Pig" post and every MRF recap from Michele/Stupina/
Columbina - it's how I get my Ren fix when I can't get to a Ren fest.
Please do carry on the postings! Either that, or invite me as a
Facebook friend so I can follow in that venue.
Al White
aka Storey Weaver
Linda2
"Storey Weaver" <v2ci...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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numps
> Just received a note from the university--in the switch to their
> new system, they have decided to drop all hosting of newsgroups.
> In their infinite wisdom,and in keeping with their usual
> approach to customer service, they have made no suggestions, other
> than to indicate that many ISPs and websites do host newsgroups.
>
> I am aware of a couple. But, anybody have any suggestions?
> Notably, I'd like to hear from those who are especially happy
> with their provider, or especially unhappy with one.
I use Google because I can access it anywhere:
It's not perfect, but not a problem either.
--mike