Re: Accesses News Group

From: Preston <dontwantany_at_nowhere.invalid>
Date: 17 Jun 2009 20:28:23 GMT
Message-ID: <79t1v7F1sfpujU1_at_mid.individual.net>



Dereck L. Dietz wrote:

> I just received an email informing me that my internet provider is
> not going to support newsgroups starting the middle of next month
> though they said some would be "for a fee".

Do you mean they're not going to provide a usenet feed themselves, or they're going to block the NNTP ports completely? If the latter, I'd change ISP pronto!

>
> I think these groups can also be accessed from the web but I'm not
> familiar with the URL. Can anybody point me to the appropriate URLs?
>
> Thanks.

Assuming you'll still have NNTP access, there are other providers. E.g. news.eternal-september.org is free & fairly reliable, or individual.net is 10 euros/year & extremely reliable. Either are far better than any of the web interfaces, but if you /have/ to do it that way, groups.google.com

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Preston.
Received on Wed Jun 17 2009 - 15:28:23 CDT

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