Date: 26 Jan 2005 15:06:56 GMT From: Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> Subject: Re: AOL dumps newsgroups
On 25 Jan 2005 17:03:32 -0800, laurak <lauraknospamousergraphics.com> wrote: > I'm seriously considering doing that, although I don't want to lose my > e-mail address. I've had the same one for 10 years. You don't have to change email address to subscribe to a usenet provider. Get connectivity through AOL, and sign up for a news provider, and use any of the dozens of tools to access it while dialed in to AOL. > I just went to DSL from dialup so I have an alternative, but I'm not > sure that BellSouth is an improvement. Everytime I go to the BellSouth > startup page (now replaced with Google Groups) it tried to install > spyware on my computer (prevented by Spybot Search and Destroy). Well, don't go to their startup page. No reason to keep your default browser homepage set to them. > And a > forum on BellSouth DSL has a lot of complaints about BellSouth and > newsgroups. news.individual.net is free and very good. No binary groups, though. > I really don't like the way Google Groups works. I can't tell what I've > read or not. Google is a great archive site, not such a good everyday use site. Dave Hinz
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