Lots of internet service providers don't have news addresses.
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, will lomas wrote:
not sure which newsgroups to join really as the ones i tried a couple month
ago seemed like right idiots
i was on the big brother one
On 20 Aug 2008, at 13:41, erik burggraaf wrote:
Hummm. I don't really like free news group services. They have bad
retention and completion. I think I'd just go easynews or giganews if I
were you. Give'r on a free trial and see if they do what you need.
Otherwise I'd just call up your isp and get their news server address.
Best,
erik burggraaf
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On 19-Aug-08, at 1:35 PM, will lomas wrote:
> eric
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> rather then me signing up to something like newsgroup direct, what
> service is available for free with loads of newsgroups on all sorts of
> subjects
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> On 19 Aug 2008, at 21:21, erik burggraaf wrote:
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> > Oh my goodness! Where can I buy my I love Panic software t-shirt?
> > This program blows the doors right off yenc powerpost and powergrab and
> > I loved those utilities for years. I am so impressed. I feel like a
> > kid back on my first dsl!
> >
> > It's threading things and nicely sorting things down a la folders and
> > oh It's insane. I was trying to get enormous cues from the easy news
> > download manager and wasting piles of credit on broken downloads.
> >
> > Nice one. I can't wait to buy it.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> > erik burggraaf
> >
> > Certified Technician
> > Assistive Computing LTD Support and training
> > Sales department: 888-828-2445
> > Support and Training: 888-255-5194
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Website coming soon
> >
> >
> >
> > On 18-Aug-08, at 11:37 PM, will lomas wrote:
> >
> > > hi yes use
> > > unison
> > >
> > > On 19 Aug 2008, at 00:53, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there an accessible program available to download usenet
> > > > messages? Everything travels in messages. Earlier the two big
> > > > formats were uuencode and mime. Later yenc was added. For
> > > > downloading and building binary files, you need at first an
> > > > accessible message reader; after that conversion tools, and finally
> > > > something like brik to verify file integrity before you try
> > > > anything with the files. I've read gnus can do this on the mac
> > > > http:/'/www.gnus.org/ and gnus may even be able to do some or all
> > > > of its own decoding and integrity checking by now. For gnus, you
> > > > need emacs as a prerequisite and since emacs talks there shouldn't
> > > > be any problem with gnus either. That's one mail and news reader
> > > > I've not yet managed to configure successfully. Interestingly,
> > > > it's the mail side of the configuration that is likely going to be
> > > > a bear but the news side isn't too complicated. hth.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Michael Babcock wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > hi all;
> > > > > is there a program that one can use to download bynary files from
> > > > > news groups? and is it accessible?
> > > > > thanks
> > > > > mike
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