Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you....

Jack Erbes

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Sep 28, 2008, 8:03:31 AM9/28/08

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Help yourself to a serving of cake and ice cream!

So how is the wireless stuff working?

We are having some kind of storm here, seas are up to 19 feet and wind
gusts may hit 90 MPH. Glad I am ashore!

Cheers,

Jack
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Jack Erbes

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Oct 1, 2008, 3:19:38 PM10/1/08

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I've been personna non grata or something with teranews for some time
now, nothing I post ever shows up on the newsgroups. But I make one
mistaken post and they pop it right through. Sheesh!

I'm floundering around a little on newsgroup access since my ISP
discontinued newsgroups support. I'd like to find something reliable
for low volume, ASCII only, access to a few groups. Anyone have any
suggestions?

It is kind of ironic that the porn slingers and perverts, who have their
own little binary cesspools to play in, have somehow managed to kill off
free (or included in the basic cost) access to one of the oldest and
must constructive facets of the Internet, the ASCII newsgroups.

Kristian M Zoerhoff

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Oct 1, 2008, 3:29:35 PM10/1/08

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On 2008-10-01, Jack Erbes <jack...@roadrunner.com> wrote:
>
> I've been personna non grata or something with teranews for some time
> now, nothing I post ever shows up on the newsgroups. But I make one
> mistaken post and they pop it right through. Sheesh!

It happens. Or spit happens. Something like that.

> I'm floundering around a little on newsgroup access since my ISP
> discontinued newsgroups support. I'd like to find something reliable
> for low volume, ASCII only, access to a few groups. Anyone have any
> suggestions?

nntp.aioe.org

I've seen some servers that filter this, due to occasional bursts of spam
that take advantage of the open server, but it seems to work for the most
part.

--

Kristian Zoerhoff
kristian...@gmail.com

Mary Hinge

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Oct 1, 2008, 4:02:54 PM10/1/08

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"Jack Erbes" <jack...@roadrunner.com> wrote in message
news:8a966$48e3cd4d$68...@news.teranews.com...

>
> I've been personna non grata or something with teranews for some time now,
> nothing I post ever shows up on the newsgroups. But I make one mistaken
> post and they pop it right through. Sheesh!
>
> I'm floundering around a little on newsgroup access since my ISP
> discontinued newsgroups support. I'd like to find something reliable for
> low volume, ASCII only, access to a few groups. Anyone have any
> suggestions?
>
> It is kind of ironic that the porn slingers and perverts, who have their
> own little binary cesspools to play in, have somehow managed to kill off
> free (or included in the basic cost) access to one of the oldest and must
> constructive facets of the Internet, the ASCII newsgroups.
>
> Jack

I have used http://news.motzarella.org/ for about a year now. No problems
yet. All free.

Jack Erbes

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Oct 1, 2008, 7:27:42 PM10/1/08

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Jack Erbes wrote:
<snip>

> I'm floundering around a little on newsgroup access since my ISP
> discontinued newsgroups support. I'd like to find something reliable
> for low volume, ASCII only, access to a few groups. Anyone have any
> suggestions?

Thanks Kristian and Mary, I'll give those a try.

Rich

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Oct 2, 2008, 11:45:15 AM10/2/08

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Jack Erbes <jack...@roadrunner.com> wrote in news:8a966$48e3cd4d$6883
@news.teranews.com:

> I'm floundering around a little on newsgroup access since my ISP
> discontinued newsgroups support. I'd like to find something reliable
> for low volume, ASCII only, access to a few groups. Anyone have any
> suggestions?

Suggest you have a look at Anchor Dudes:
http://www.newsgroupservers.net/

You might find a free server there.

Rich