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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / March 2007off subject (newsgroups)
Hello, I have an ancient dial-up connection and have moved forward to a broadband connection. My old server had News Groups which I used all the time and accessed this group. With Hughes.Net, I do not have a news server and was looking for some suggestions. You know this News Group helped me be here to this day, and I sure want to keep posted. John Loomis Prostate Cancer Survivor > Hello, > I have an ancient dial-up connection and have moved forward to a [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > John Loomis > Prostate Cancer Survivor John, The easiest approach may be to use Google. Go to: http://groups.google.com Register with your name and email address and you'll get access that enables you to read and post to this and many other newsgroups. Click the Help link to figure out what to do. By the way, Google does a reasonably good job of protecting your email address from spammers. Alan (snip) > With Hughes.Net, I do not have a news server and was looking for some > suggestions. There is a number of servers that include not only e-mail but newgroups. I use Mozilla Thunderbird, which is similar to, but not subject to the problems of, the Microsoft garbage. And it's free. It also offers Mozilla Firefox, a very fine browser. See, http://www.mozilla.org/ Regards, Steve J > Hello, > I have an ancient dial-up connection and have moved forward to a [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > You know this News Group helped me be here to this day, and I sure want to > keep posted. I had to try three ISPs to find one which provided all the posts available (many drop most posts); you may want to try another ISP if Hughes verifies that they do not provide USENET access. I.P. > I have an ancient dial-up connection and have moved forward to a > broadband connection. My old server had News Groups which I > used all the time and accessed this group. > With Hughes.Net, I do not have a news server and was looking for > some suggestions. Two methods that I use are............ http://www.fidotel.com/public/default.htm http://groups.google.com >Hello, > I have an ancient dial-up connection and have moved forward to a [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >You know this News Group helped me be here to this day, and I sure want to >keep posted. My ISP's news server fell over so I've been using this one now for a month or so...works well ;) http://www.motzarella.org/?language=en&showpage=home -Please reply to group as my email addr is fake! -Regards CC Thanks, Clarence. I have been using Motzarella for a year and am quite happy with it. I was hunting around last night for the website but it had changed.....and I don't speak much German, grin. (no, it is not the cheese). Heather >>Hello, >> I have an ancient dial-up connection and have moved forward to a [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > -Regards CC > Hello, > I have an ancient dial-up connection and have moved forward to a [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > John Loomis > Prostate Cancer Survivor John, Others are using hughes.net so what are you saying? You picked a (hughes) plan without "news" service? (many ISP's carry "news", but some don't bother showing it on their webpage nor tell the customer, unless asked). Or you've not contacted them for the appropriate settings for your Outlook Express? If the former, you can purchase "news" service, from https://secure.giganews.com/signup/ or www.individual.net/ (low cost annual fee for the latter) If the latter, contact hughes.net J Hey, Thanks, I will check it out. John Low PSA's to all! >> Hello, >> I have an ancient dial-up connection and have moved forward to a [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > If the latter, contact hughes.net > J >> With Hughes.Net, I do not have a news server and was looking for some >> suggestions. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If the latter, contact hughes.net > J AHA....you hit the nail on the head. I will bet $100 Cdn that he never thought to ask his ISP to set him up for newsgroups. I find that a lot of ISP's are both negligent in this......and a lot of ISP techies simply don't know how to do it. Guess it isn't in their training manual (G). Thanks J.....I bet if he phones Hughes and demands someone higher up, he will then get news groups. Don't know about your ISP, but both Rogers and Sympatico dropped Usenet a year ago, which is why I use the freebie Motzarella. Used to use the German one (Individual.net) until they started charging. It wasn't the cost, it was the PITA way you had to get the money to them. But they are very good. Cheers....H > >> With Hughes.Net, I do not have a news server and was looking for some > >> suggestions. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > Cheers....H I checked Heather through all groups and people are still posting with both. comp.dcom.modems.cable was answering questions about cable modems and rogers was mentioned in Sept. And somebody recently advertising she wanted to buy a modem (and her email was rogers) I think there's a regular, on alt.support.cancer who uses sympatico. He only posts every 3 or 4 months to update us that his wife is (knock wood) still no recurrence). Rogers has a FAQ here <http://shoprogersfaq.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/shoprogersfaq.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp. php?p_sid=s6vkqEii&p_lva=&p_faqid=3849&p_created=1111692870&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9 ncmlkc29ydD0mcF9yb3dfY250PTImcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1CRUZDTVUxMCZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPTY mcF9wcm9kX2x2bDE9fmFueX4mcF9wcm9kX2x2bDI9fmFueX4mcF9zb3J0X2J5PWRmbHQmcF9wYWdlPTE *&p_li=> When I type in newsgroup in the Keyword Search - Category "Internet Services", there's FAQ's about Usenet or Newsgroup. Which are you on, Heather? I'll try to research more later. J >> Don't know about your ISP, but both Rogers and Sympatico dropped >> Usenet [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Which are you on, Heather? > I'll try to research more later. Thanks, but not needed, J. If you type "usenet" into that same Keyword Search instead of newsgroup, you get the following..... http://snipurl.com/tqzb We were emailed and told that Rogers would no longer support Usenet as of Dec. 15, 2005. I switched to Bell Sympatico 2 months later because they assured me they would not drop it. They DID....3 months later. So I went back to Rogers where the service is incredibly better and got some of my techie online friends to suggest a good free ng. FWIW, I just switched my land line to Rogers Home Phone an hour ago. My daughter lives in BC and she has Rogers Home Phone and also we both use Rogers Wireless. Result?? No more long distance charges between our land lines or wireless phones.....YAHOO!! Wonder how long that will last, grin. And finally, I downloaded "Skype" and have been talking to friends in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and England for free. You just need a mike or headset. I am quite pleased with it. Cheers....Heather (Ontario) PS.....Just got notified that Motzarella is going to terminate my participation because I haven't used it in 150 days???? I use it every day. Idiots!! > PS.....Just got notified that Motzarella is going to terminate my > participation because I haven't used it in 150 days???? I use it > every day. Idiots!! Sorted out immediately!! Glitch in the system and Wolf of Motzarella wrote me right away to say "don't worry". > >> Don't know about your ISP, but both Rogers and Sympatico dropped > >> Usenet [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > http://snipurl.com/tqzb Groan. I mised that. But thanks I found something (else) there that might be useful to me. And here's a free way of accessing support newsgroups http://talkaboutsupport.com/group/alt.support.cancer.prostate/ Provides a bird's eye view of topics and archives and it munges email addresses as well. J I've been amazed several times when ISP personnel have asked me why I want newsgroup access . . . what I do with them . . . what good they are. They've never used them, and don't know why anyone else would. You'd think that from, what . . . a million? . . . forums, these people would find *something* that really interested them besides, I guess, video games. I.P. I have had about 4 or 5 ISP's......and only one of them knew much about news groups. It is really weird!! 2 of them are the biggest in Canada and they still don't ever suggest using them. They are always quite surprised when I ask them to help me set them up. Every darn ISP has told me that only about 10-20% of their customers use them. DUH!! With this freebie one, I had to set it up myself, which was a tad aggravating, but I managed. Heather > I've been amazed several times when ISP personnel have asked me why I > want newsgroup access . . . what I do with them . . . what good they [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > I.P. >> >> Don't know about your ISP, but both Rogers and Sympatico dropped >> >> Usenet [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Groan. I mised that. But thanks I found something (else) there that > might be useful to me. LOL!! I remembered both Rogers and Sympatico referring to it as "Usenet".....but glad you found something else there. Where is the below website from? I have never seen that one before. Must play with it but the ads might drive me nuts!! Thanks.....H > And here's a free way of accessing support newsgroups > http://talkaboutsupport.com/group/alt.support.cancer.prostate/ > Provides a bird's eye view of topics and archives and it munges email > addresses as well. > J > "J" <nexsw@nvalid,anon> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > Provides a bird's eye view of topics and archives and it munges email > > addresses as well. True about the ads, but there's nothing on the right side (like Google has). I've got a small monitor so all the text is squished into small boxes that I haven't quite figured out how to enlarge, some sometimes enlarge themselves and i don't know what I clicked. To answer your question, we because aware of them archiving newsgroup posts and then a patient showed up using them and from there it's history. If someone asks I give them this option. However, I think it's only "support" newsgroups and they probably can't crosspost, which to me is a (usually) good thing :) J |
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