Hi, this is not really an electronics question, but I was wondering what pe ople use to view and post to this forum... all I've ever used is sci.electr onics.design at the
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website, which works fine, but is there other better ways to do this? I had heard you could use Mozilla Thu nderbird, but I couldn't figure out how... when I was looking into it it se emed like you had to pay to access the groups... is this a google group or something else? Like somethign called usenet?
use to view and post to this forum... all I've ever used is sci.electronics.design at the
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website, which works fine, but is there other better ways to do this? I had heard you could use Mozilla Thunderbird, but I couldn't figure out how... when I was looking into it it seemed like you had to pay to access the groups... is this a google group or something else? Like somethign called usenet?
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I use the low-tier service from Forte ($3/mo) and barely any of that, since I'm only a text-grouper.
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They're a reseller of EasyNews, nowadays.
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seems to offer a free service (small sign-up fee) that should be more than enough for text groups. Others over at
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For heavy binary use Giganews, EasyNews, TeraNews, etc. have multi-gig plans.
Essentially, you tell your Usenet client the name of the server (e.g., news.example.net) then get a list of groups that server carries. The client should have a button or menu choice to do that. Then select what newsgroups you want to "subscribe" to, and tell the client to check with the server for any new posts to those groups.
On a sunny day (Mon, 8 Apr 2013 11:54:30 -0700 (PDT)) it happened panfilero wrote in :
If you run Linux use the newsreader I wrote:
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After more than 14 years it still outperforms anything else. Not only that, I have a database that goes back that far with lots of interesting postings that it creates on the fly,
The closest thing in MS windows was Free Agent (I wrote it because there was no Free Agent for Linux), not sure that is still available or free. Newsflex easily covers 20 or more groups with just a mouse click, multiple servers, etc etc.
use to view and post to this forum... all I've ever used is sci.electronics.design at the
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website, which works fine, but is there other better ways to do this? I had heard you could use Mozilla Thunderbird, but I couldn't figure out how... when I was looking into it it seemed like you had to pay to access the groups... is this a google group or something else? Like somethign called usenet?
What a weird question. No sane person would put up with GG anymore.
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