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My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt
binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD |
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Dead Nuts wrote:
My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD try albasini.net it is free and works fine for me. Cheers Ian |
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"Ian Bell" wrote in message ... Dead Nuts wrote: My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD try albasini.net it is free and works fine for me. Cheers Ian Would that be albasani.net? Their faq says they don't do binaries like abse. Fred |
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Fred wrote:
"Ian Bell" wrote in message ... Dead Nuts wrote: My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD try albasini.net it is free and works fine for me. Cheers Ian Would that be albasani.net? Their faq says they don't do binaries like abse. Yes and yes. Cheers ian Fred |
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"Fred" wrote in message m... "Ian Bell" wrote in message ... Dead Nuts wrote: My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD try albasini.net it is free and works fine for me. Cheers Ian Would that be albasani.net? Their faq says they don't do binaries like abse. Fred Yes, as far as I can find, none of the "working" freebees do alt.binaries. The poster would have to pay for those on one of the pay services. I have good luck with news.eternal-september.org, at lest for now. No binaries though. I used to enjoy the binary groups like alt.binaries.midi and several of the joke groups but most are so full of spam as to be totally worthless and certainly not worth paying to get. The Usenet is dying, a tiny shell of its former self. |
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On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 14:09:27 -0700, "Bob Eld"
wrote: "Fred" wrote in message om... "Ian Bell" wrote in message ... Dead Nuts wrote: My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD try albasini.net it is free and works fine for me. Cheers Ian Would that be albasani.net? Their faq says they don't do binaries like abse. Fred Yes, as far as I can find, none of the "working" freebees do alt.binaries. The poster would have to pay for those on one of the pay services. I have good luck with news.eternal-september.org, at lest for now. No binaries though. I used to enjoy the binary groups like alt.binaries.midi and several of the joke groups but most are so full of spam as to be totally worthless and certainly not worth paying to get. The Usenet is dying, a tiny shell of its former self. Are binary groups even necessary any more? As far as I am aware, every Internet account comes with at least some web space, which is a far more convenient way of distributing a file than a multipart binary on a news group. d |
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On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:09:27 -0700, Bob Eld wrote:
"Fred" wrote in message m... "Ian Bell" wrote in message ... Dead Nuts wrote: My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD try albasini.net it is free and works fine for me. Cheers Ian Would that be albasani.net? Their faq says they don't do binaries like abse. Fred Yes, as far as I can find, none of the "working" freebees do alt.binaries. The poster would have to pay for those on one of the pay services. I have good luck with news.eternal-september.org, at lest for now. No binaries though. I used to enjoy the binary groups like alt.binaries.midi and several of the joke groups but most are so full of spam as to be totally worthless and certainly not worth paying to get. The Usenet is dying, a tiny shell of its former self. If you filter out everything from googlegroups over 90% of that spam magically disappears! OK, you'll miss a few posts, but you'll probably spot more that would otherwise have been lost in the noise. For anyone needing binaries access I can recommend astraweb. You can buy a block of data then use it whenever you want. I set up at least 2 news servers, a free text server (or 2) as the main server(s) and astraweb as a secondary server. That way I get free access for most of the groups that I use. It works really well. -- Mick (Working in a M$-free zone!) Web: http://www.nascom.info Filtering everything posted from googlegroups to kill spam. |
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On Sep 6, 3:22*am, mick wrote:
On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:09:27 -0700, Bob Eld wrote: "Fred" wrote in message om... "Ian Bell" wrote in message ... Dead Nuts wrote: My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless.. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD try albasini.net it is free and works fine for me. Cheers Ian Would that be albasani.net? *Their faq says they don't do binaries like abse. Fred Yes, as far as I can find, none of the "working" freebees do alt.binaries. The poster would have to pay for those on one of the pay services. I have good luck with news.eternal-september.org, at lest for now. No binaries though. I used to enjoy the binary groups like alt.binaries.midi and several of the joke groups but most are so full of spam as to be totally worthless and certainly not worth paying to get. The Usenet is dying, a tiny shell of its former self. If you filter out everything from googlegroups over 90% of that spam magically disappears! OK, you'll miss a few posts, but you'll probably spot more that would otherwise have been lost in the noise. For anyone needing binaries access I can recommend astraweb. You can buy a block of data then use it whenever you want. I set up at least 2 news servers, a free text server (or 2) as the main server(s) and astraweb as a secondary server. That way I get free access for most of the groups that I use. It works really well. -- Mick * * * * * * * * * * *(Working in a M$-free zone!) Web:http://www.nascom.info Filtering everything posted from googlegroups to kill spam. * * Well, I hope people don't do this! I use google groups so you'll miss my pearls of wisdom, such as they may or may not be! :-) Actually, the google groups screen presentation is very good, beats Outlook Express by a country mile. Of course, Mike won't see this! Pity. Cheers, Roger |
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On Sep 7, 11:11*am, Engineer wrote:
On Sep 6, 3:22*am, mick wrote: On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:09:27 -0700, Bob Eld wrote: "Fred" wrote in message om... "Ian Bell" wrote in message ... Dead Nuts wrote: My news server stopped carrying lots of news groups. Groups I used were alt binaries schematic electronics, alt astronomy and many more. My server was Verizon. My tech support was usually from India and totally cluless. What can I do? Any & all suggestions accepted. DD try albasini.net it is free and works fine for me. Cheers Ian Would that be albasani.net? *Their faq says they don't do binaries like abse. Fred Yes, as far as I can find, none of the "working" freebees do alt.binaries. The poster would have to pay for those on one of the pay services. I have good luck with news.eternal-september.org, at lest for now. No binaries though. I used to enjoy the binary groups like alt.binaries.midi and several of the joke groups but most are so full of spam as to be totally worthless and certainly not worth paying to get.. The Usenet is dying, a tiny shell of its former self. If you filter out everything from googlegroups over 90% of that spam magically disappears! OK, you'll miss a few posts, but you'll probably spot more that would otherwise have been lost in the noise. For anyone needing binaries access I can recommend astraweb. You can buy a block of data then use it whenever you want. I set up at least 2 news servers, a free text server (or 2) as the main server(s) and astraweb as a secondary server. That way I get free access for most of the groups that I use. It works really well. -- Mick * * * * * * * * * * *(Working in a M$-free zone!) Web:http://www.nascom.info Filtering everything posted from googlegroups to kill spam. * * Well, I hope people don't do this! *I use google groups so you'll miss my pearls of wisdom, such as they may or may not be! *:-) Actually, the google groups screen presentation is very good, beats Outlook Express by a country mile. Of course, Mike won't see this! Pity. Cheers, Roger Oops, Mick, that is... but since he's not seeing it he won't be offended! Cheers, Roger |
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