Re: SeaMonkey - Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-07 Thread Liam Proven
On 6 March 2016 at 21:33, Dave Wade wrote: > SeaMonkey is essentially the same code as in Thunderbird/Firefox. Personally > I prefer to keep browser and mail/news separate. Pretty sure it will import > from the old Netscape Communicator. It appears that Jerome has killfiled me, as I have answere

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-06 Thread John Robertson
back quite a ways...2003 for rec.humour.funny for example. John :-#)# -Original Message- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jerome H. Fine Sent: 06 March 2016 14:27 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Usenet News Servers >

RE: SeaMonkey - Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-06 Thread Dave Wade
rome H. > Fine > Sent: 06 March 2016 16:07 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: SeaMonkey - Re: Usenet News Servers > > >Toby Thain wrote: > > > >On 2016-03-06 9:27 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: > > > >> I hav

Re: SeaMonkey - Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-06 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>Toby Thain wrote: >On 2016-03-06 9:27 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: I have a question about access to newsgroups. Which currently available browser is able to access a newsgroups server? Currently, I am using Netscape 7.2 under Windows 98SE. If I upgrade to Windows 10, I probably won't find an

SeaMonkey - Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-06 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-03-06 9:27 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >On Saturday, March 5th, 2016 at 12:53:22 +, Robert Jarratt wrote: My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts. What news servers do people round here recommend? I have a question about access to newsgroups. Which current

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-06 Thread Dale H. Cook
At 09:27 AM 3/6/2016, Jerome H. Fine wrote: >I have a question about access to newsgroups. I have never used a browser for Usenet - I have always used Forte Agent, a Usenet client: http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php

RE: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-06 Thread Dave G4UGM
gt; > Subject: Re: Usenet News Servers > > >On Saturday, March 5th, 2016 at 12:53:22 +, Robert Jarratt wrote: > > >My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts. > > > >What news servers do people round here recommend? > > > I have a que

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-06 Thread Jerome H. Fine
>On Saturday, March 5th, 2016 at 12:53:22 +, Robert Jarratt wrote: My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts. What news servers do people round here recommend? I have a question about access to newsgroups. Which currently available browser is able to access a newsgr

RE: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread Ali
> My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts. > > > > What news servers do people round here recommend? > Anybody using Astranews: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html? -Ali

RE: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jason > Howe > Sent: 05 March 2016 14:33 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: Usenet News Servers > > On 03/05/2016 04:53 AM, Rober

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread TeoZ
When TWC dropped newsgroups here years ago I went with AGN. http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php $2.95 a month for 25GB of downloads. Highest Retention and Completion •2,759 Days Binary Retention •4,635 Days Text Retention •99% + Completion Rate •100,000 + Newsgroups 30 Blazing Fast

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/05/2016 06:53 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote: My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts. What news servers do people round here recommend? I've been using GigaNews for some time, when my ISP dropped their news service. Jon

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread william degnan
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 10:39 AM, jwsmobile wrote: > > > On 3/5/2016 7:27 AM, Mouse wrote: > >> What news servers do people round here recommend? >>> http://www.eternal-september.org/ >>> >> Am I the only one who finds it amusing (in a dark-humour kind of sense) >> that someone asked after ne

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread jwsmobile
On 3/5/2016 7:27 AM, Mouse wrote: What news servers do people round here recommend? http://www.eternal-september.org/ Am I the only one who finds it amusing (in a dark-humour kind of sense) that someone asked after news servers and got pointed to a web server? Not really. The instructions fo

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread Jason Howe
On 03/05/2016 07:27 AM, Mouse wrote: What news servers do people round here recommend? http://www.eternal-september.org/ Am I the only one who finds it amusing (in a dark-humour kind of sense) that someone asked after news servers and got pointed to a web server? Oh believe me, the irony did n

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread Mouse
>> What news servers do people round here recommend? > http://www.eternal-september.org/ Am I the only one who finds it amusing (in a dark-humour kind of sense) that someone asked after news servers and got pointed to a web server? /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campai

Re: Usenet News Servers

2016-03-05 Thread Jason Howe
On 03/05/2016 04:53 AM, Robert Jarratt wrote: My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts. What news servers do people round here recommend? http://www.eternal-september.org/ Text only, no binaries. --Jason