News.individual.net

salem

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Feb 16, 2005, 4:51:23 PM2/16/05

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I just got an email from news.individual.net that they will soon no
longer be a free newsfeed.

does anyone know a good alternate free news feed? or should i just get
off my butt and hassle my isp to carry rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad?
(seeing as it's the only groups i read)

thanks,

salem
http://www.users.tpg.com.au/adsltqna/VtES/index.htm
(replace "hotmail" with "yahoo" to email)

quetzalcoatl

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Feb 16, 2005, 6:17:39 PM2/16/05

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Hey Salem,

there are free news feeds all over the place. Do a search on google for
"free news server" and so forth.

I personally use groups.google.com to read news feeds.

Regards,
David V Vega
http://vtes.vega.id.au

LSJ

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Feb 16, 2005, 6:26:04 PM2/16/05

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quetzalcoatl wrote:
> there are free news feeds all over the place. Do a search on google for
> "free news server" and so forth.

Free good news servers that carry r.g.t-c.jyhad are few and
far between. If anyone knows of any, I'd be interested, too.

If anyone's google search (above) turned up a useful lead,
please post the URL (and, if you care to, the search criteria
used -- I'd like to know).

--
LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc.
Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar:
http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

quetzalcoatl

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Feb 16, 2005, 6:43:40 PM2/16/05

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I typed the following into google

"news server" +free

chose the second link ...

http://freenews.maxbaud.net/

and then selected servers added 2005-02-16

Amongst these I selected the first one with posting allowed

aioe.cjb.net

And my news reader automatically picked it up and downloaded the
groups. I found rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad and read the latest post
in the tenebrous form thread.

LSJ

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Feb 16, 2005, 8:32:30 PM2/16/05

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Thanks for that.

When I had been looking for replacements to news.individual.net
back when they changed their server and it no longer worked with
my netscape set-up, such searches were fruitless.

quetzalcoatl

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Feb 16, 2005, 9:16:14 PM2/16/05

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LSJ wrote:
>
> Thanks for that.

No problems ... you answer my questions about VTES ... I answer those
about free news servers :)

>
> When I had been looking for replacements to news.individual.net
> back when they changed their server and it no longer worked with
> my netscape set-up, such searches were fruitless.

Its all in the -=wiggles fingers=- search string.

David

The Lasombra

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Feb 16, 2005, 9:35:18 PM2/16/05

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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:51:23 +1100, salem
<salem_ch...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I just got an email from news.individual.net that they will soon no
>longer be a free newsfeed.

>does anyone know a good alternate free news feed? or should i just get
>off my butt and hassle my isp to carry rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad?
>(seeing as it's the only groups i read)

You should buck up and pay the 10 euro per year.

If DejaNews had offered a chance to keep them in business and online
as a paying member I would have been all over it. Just look at the
Google crap we have to put up with now compared to the sleek
sophisticated clean look of DejaNews circa 1997.

Atlernately, create a consortium of the news reading public, pay the
fee once, and share the account. The amount of traffic on this
newsgroup will never approach a bandwidth issue for them.

Carpe noctem.

Lasombra

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