On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Nancy Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
> ? > > ---- > Thanks again, Eric. For some reason, I thought I had read about a "list" > already in existence, but guess I was wrong. I did read what was said > about Gmane, and hope it's to my liking. > > As a beta tester for Microsoft, I'm solidly in the NNTP court. In NNTP, > threads are much easier to keep up with and I always know what I've read > and what I haven't. That said, on October 7, Microsoft will kill off > NNTP. What they're offering in its place doesn't look promising. > > I will wait for Gmane and do my best to learn how to navigate it. Gotta > be better than no threads at all. > Nancy Ward > Windows 8 Beta Ferret > -- > To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to > [email protected]<discuss%[email protected]> > All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted. > List archives are available at > http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ > > I would prefer NNTP myself but be aware that there are major ISPs in USA that do not have any news servers. Verizon FIOS, Time Warner Cable and Optimum Online are three major ISPs in the USA that do not support NNTP. If you are a customer of these ISPs and want access to the Usenet groups you must pay for a private subscription to a public news server. A non technical minded end user may never have heard of Usenet and wonder where the technical support is. -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to [email protected] All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
