Temporarily usenet-handicapped

Kajikit <[email hidden]> wrote in news:1178118109.599990.229790
@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

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Two things - google groups sucks, and I feel naked without my Agent
running!

Yeah......... I can see that :-)

Kajikit <[email hidden]> wrote in
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NIN closed my account

Nine Inch Nails? <G>

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on me because we changed our credit card
so the payment bounced... (they didn't even send a reminder
email... 🙁 ) and it doesn't want to let us fix it today, so
I'm reduced to Google... Two things - google groups sucks, and
I feel naked without my Agent running!

There are some free news servers. You might want to spend some
time reading the free.newsservers group.

sandi said:

Kajikit <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

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NIN closed my account

Nine Inch Nails? <G>

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on me because we changed our credit card
so the payment bounced... (they didn't even send a reminder
email... 🙁 ) and it doesn't want to let us fix it today, so
I'm reduced to Google... Two things - google groups sucks, and
I feel naked without my Agent running!

There are some free news servers. You might want to spend some
time reading the free.newsservers group.

Found one! Somebody took mercy on my parlous state and recommended a
new free newserver for me to try...

"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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sandi said:

Kajikit <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

Quoted message said:

NIN closed my account

Nine Inch Nails? <G>

Quoted message said:

on me because we changed our credit card
so the payment bounced... (they didn't even send a reminder
email... 🙁 ) and it doesn't want to let us fix it today, so
I'm reduced to Google... Two things - google groups sucks, and
I feel naked without my Agent running!

There are some free news servers. You might want to spend some
time reading the free.newsservers group.

Found one! Somebody took mercy on my parlous state and recommended a
new free newserver for me to try...

Oooh! Parlous! A gold star for you, missy!

Felice

My commiserations. My ISP in their wisdom decided not to run
newsgroups at all, so I'm now limited to google. Half the time my
replies don't appear, but it's also nowhere near as friendly as Agent.

You probably won't see this!

Kathy-in-NZ said:

My commiserations. My ISP in their wisdom decided not to run
newsgroups at all, so I'm now limited to google. Half the time my
replies don't appear, but it's also nowhere near as friendly as Agent.

You probably won't see this!

That was my situation as well, and then one of the many trolls was seen
to be posting from a free news service and I clicked on it.

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Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com

Kathy-in-NZ wrote on 03 May 2007 in rec.food.cooking

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My commiserations. My ISP in their wisdom decided not to run
newsgroups at all, so I'm now limited to google. Half the time my
replies don't appear, but it's also nowhere near as friendly as Agent.

You probably won't see this!

Usenet access can be purchased from various sites...I for a while used

http://www.giganews.com/usenet_offers/t/usenet.html

Kajikit said:

NIN closed my account on me because we changed our credit card so the
payment bounced... (they didn't even send a reminder email... 🙁 ) and
it doesn't want to let us fix it today, so I'm reduced to Google...
Two things - google groups sucks, and I feel naked without my Agent
running!

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From your Google profile is seems you've been posting just fine with

Google.

I think Google is pretty good, has lots of very nice features, just
gotta use it for a while to familiarize (no different from moving to a
new house), and they keep adding, only problem is it stops working for
a day when they do a major upgrade, but that's true with any
software... at least Google upgrades.

Kajikit said:

NIN closed my account on me because we changed our credit card so the
payment bounced... (they didn't even send a reminder email... 🙁 ) and
it doesn't want to let us fix it today, so I'm reduced to Google...
Two things - google groups sucks, and I feel naked without my Agent
running!

That almost happened to me. You have to use "add credit
card". You can't change the credit card information....

--
Jean B.

And what is the name of this free news server and how do i get it?

--
Helen
in
FERGUS/HARLINGEN
http://www.mompeagram.homestead.com/index.html
"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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sandi said:

Kajikit <[email hidden]> wrote in
news:[email hidden]:

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NIN closed my account

Nine Inch Nails? <G>

Quoted message said:

on me because we changed our credit card
so the payment bounced... (they didn't even send a reminder
email... 🙁 ) and it doesn't want to let us fix it today, so
I'm reduced to Google... Two things - google groups sucks, and
I feel naked without my Agent running!

There are some free news servers. You might want to spend some
time reading the free.newsservers group.

Found one! Somebody took mercy on my parlous state and recommended a
new free newserver for me to try...

Kathy-in-NZ said:

My commiserations. My ISP in their wisdom decided not to run
newsgroups at all, so I'm now limited to google.

I pay about a dollar a month (10 Euros a year) for individual.net
(which doesn't carry binary groups) and I like it.

http://news.individual.net

Serene

Felice Friese said:

"Karen AKA Kajikit" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

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On 02 May 2007 15:27:49 GMT, sandi <[email hidden]> wrote:

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There are some free news servers. You might want to spend some
time reading the free.newsservers group.

Found one! Somebody took mercy on my parlous state and recommended a
new free newserver for me to try...

Oooh! Parlous! A gold star for you, missy!

We's edumakated we is... :P

Serene said:

Kathy-in-NZ said:

My commiserations. My ISP in their wisdom decided not to run
newsgroups at all, so I'm now limited to google.

I pay about a dollar a month (10 Euros a year) for individual.net
(which doesn't carry binary groups) and I like it.

http://news.individual.net

Recommendation seconded. I've been with them for years, going back to
when they were cis.dfn.de.

--
Blinky RLU 297263
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

MOMPEAGRAM said:

And what is the name of this free news server and how do i get it?

Sure... the name of the site and server is albasani.net . I got a
response from them pretty quickly. Just go there and click on 'contact
us' and say 'can I please have a usenet account?' and they shall
provide.

Kajikit said:

Two things - google groups sucks, and I feel naked without my Agent
running!

I'm losing my news service shortly and have been looking around for
alternatives. This looks promising:

http://www.newsservers.net/FreeNewsServers.php

nb

Kathy-in-NZ said:

My commiserations. My ISP in their wisdom decided not to run
newsgroups at all, so I'm now limited to google. Half the time my
replies don't appear, but it's also nowhere near as friendly as Agent.

You probably won't see this!

You don't need your ISP to carry newsgroups to be able to read them...
I don't use comcast's newsgroup service because I think their
retention sucks. Register with albasani.net or one of the other free
usenet feeds and you can go back to using Agent. 🙂 Google's alright
for emergencies (they seem to have improved it slightly since they
first started googlegroups), but I'd hate to have to use it all the
time!

Jean B. said:

Kajikit said:

NIN closed my account on me because we changed our credit card so the
payment bounced... (they didn't even send a reminder email... 🙁 ) and
it doesn't want to let us fix it today, so I'm reduced to Google...
Two things - google groups sucks, and I feel naked without my Agent
running!

That almost happened to me. You have to use "add credit
card". You can't change the credit card information....

I don't really mind now I've found another newsfeed to use... if I can
get it for free I can save that twenty-five bucks a year for something
else!

Serene said:

Kathy-in-NZ said:

My commiserations. My ISP in their wisdom decided not to run
newsgroups at all, so I'm now limited to google.

I pay about a dollar a month (10 Euros a year) for individual.net
(which doesn't carry binary groups) and I like it.

http://news.individual.net

So do I --- very reliable service, with good spam-filtering.

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Adam Funk said:

Serene said:

Kathy-in-NZ said:

My commiserations. My ISP in their wisdom decided not to run
newsgroups at all, so I'm now limited to google.

Quoted message said:

I pay about a dollar a month (10 Euros a year) for individual.net
(which doesn't carry binary groups) and I like it.

Quoted message said:

http://news.individual.net

So do I --- very reliable service, with good spam-filtering.

Hey, thanks very much. I had no idea I could subscribe seperately to a
newsreader service and still use Agent. I only ever used it for this
group. Are you worth 10 euro a year? Just kidding!

Kathy in NZ