Losing access to newsgroup

On Jun 9, 6:18*pm, "Pauline" wrote:
AT&T posted a message yesterday that they would no longer be supporting
Usenet groups *I know there are alternate ways to access the
newsgroup - Google being one of them. *Can anyone post how they are able to
read & post to the newsgroup that is a cleaner route than going thru Google?

Pauline
Northern California

Years ago, AOL dropped access to usenet newsgroup. I went to GOOGLE,
clicked on newsgroups, typed in the exact newsgroup name (the second
time ;0 ), bookmarked rctq on my browsers, and have had no trouble.
You do have to register to post, but you can read without registering.
I am using a MAC laptop with free internet at my local library or dial-
up with an external modem, Safari or Firefox as my browsers . . . .
w
in northern ca

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a binary newsgroup??

Sunny

John wrote:
On Jun 9, 11:30 pm, onetexsun wrote:
I keep thinking I must be dense or something, but using Google is
absolutely the easiest way of reading and responding to the posts in
this list. On the side of the page is a list of all the posts with new
responses. That lets me keep track of older posts that are still
active. A quick glance shows me the poster, the subject and how many
people have jumped into the stew.

I have several other news groups that I absolutely hate because of the
clunky nature of the interface. Wish they were all Google groups.

Sunny

I agree. I have used Google for years. I have heard others complain
about it and laud their own choices. The only times I have disliked
using other browsers for access, is when I was using other than my own
computers. I guess it is just a case of what you get used to.

John

I found using Google Groups for RTCQ to be just fine. However, I also
read alt.support.diabetes, and it has an incredible number of trolls
that really need to be filtered out, so I use motzarella.

Best regards,
Michelle in NV

On 6/10/09 13:48, in article
,
"onetexsun" wrote:

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a binary newsgroup??

Sunny

In usenet parlance, pictures are "binaries".

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:48:34 -0700 (PDT), onetexsun
wrote:

Pardon my ignorance, but what is a binary newsgroup??

It is a way of posting pictures on usnet and other primarily text
fourms.

Those occasional forever long posts that are just a block of letters
and numbers are most often binary format. Most newsreaders can
translate them, but you have to tell them too.

Back when everybody was on dial-up, specific groups were formed to
post binaries to. Since binary files are huge compared to plain text,
nobody wanted them in regular groups where many people were still
paying for service by the minute. As many people are still on dial-up
and it can take an hour or more to download a binary file on a dial up
connection, non-text posts are still supposed to go to the binary
groups or the newer multi-media groups.

Some servers do not carry binary groups, or any other non-text groups.
Some of them because of the massive amount of bandwidth they take up,
some in an effort to avoid pRon. In a global community, where the age
of consent is all over the map, and laws covering nude or suggestive
photos are likewise all over the map, keeping such stuff legal
everywhere is an impossible task.

NightMist
--

Legolas is my house elf

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I'll be checking them all out &
hopefully prepared when & if it does happen! I had not considered that the
AT & T posting to the newsgroup may have been spam. DH said he got a
similar posting in a fly fishing newsgroup that he subscribes to, so I took
it to be the real deal!

Pauline
Northern California

"Pauline" wrote in message
...
AT&T posted a message yesterday that they would no longer be supporting
Usenet groups I know there are alternate ways to access the
newsgroup - Google being one of them. Can anyone post how they are able
to read & post to the newsgroup that is a cleaner route than going thru
Google?

Pauline
Northern California

Comcast did this a while back. I'm paying $7.99 a month for Giganews.
Great access. No problems.

Lenore


"Pauline" wrote in message
...
AT&T posted a message yesterday that they would no longer be supporting
Usenet groups I know there are alternate ways to access the
newsgroup - Google being one of them. Can anyone post how they are able
to read & post to the newsgroup that is a cleaner route than going thru
Google?

Pauline
Northern California

So it's all about the money, huh!!

Pauline
Northern California

"lenorel95" wrote in message
...
Comcast did this a while back. I'm paying $7.99 a month for Giganews.
Great access. No problems.

Lenore


"Pauline" wrote in message
...
AT&T posted a message yesterday that they would no longer be supporting
Usenet groups I know there are alternate ways to access the
newsgroup - Google being one of them. Can anyone post how they are able
to read & post to the newsgroup that is a cleaner route than going thru
Google?

Pauline
Northern California

tools/accounts/news/add
put news.aioe.org for the server to access thru outlook express and i
imagine other windows programs.
free, easy, most posts seem to come thru tho nothing is full proof as all
usenet posts have to go thru various servers around the world on its way
back to each one of us.
ya never know when one server might be offline doing maintenence or some
other really important piece of garbage and your post or someone elses
incoming might vanish into cyberspace.
hey, its free.
j.


"Pauline" wrote...
So it's all about the money, huh!!


"lenorel95" wrote...
Comcast did this a while back. I'm paying $7.99 a month for Giganews.
Great access. No problems.