AOL discontinuing Newsgroup access !

AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access to
Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
"Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much easier to
read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.

Yeah it bothers me too, but this might cause AOL users to end their service
with them.
I may be one of them too.
It just might be the last straw!
later,
dave
(One out of many daves)

"Sam Ormes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access to
> Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
> "Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much
> easier to
> read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.

I see that your wireless is working fine.
"Sam Ormes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access to
> Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
> "Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much
> easier to
> read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.

Probably because they can't control content. It's amazing how many Americans
can't stand freedom. They should lay off Iraq.

"Sam Ormes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access to
> Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
> "Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much
> easier to
> read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.

Try this free news server news.individual.net, it is free. All you have to
do is register. You can use Outlook Express or any other news viewer.

http://www.dfn.de/content/en/enhome/index.html

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Tony Marsillo
Nutmeg Repair
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"Sam Ormes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access to
> Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
> "Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much
> easier to
> read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.

The problem with almost, and I mean 99.999999%, of free usnet servers is
that they have almost no post retention and miss many parts of threads...

"Tony Marsillo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Try this free news server news.individual.net, it is free. All you have
> to do is register. You can use Outlook Express or any other news viewer.
>
> http://www.dfn.de/content/en/enhome/index.html
>
> --
> Tony Marsillo
> Nutmeg Repair
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> "Sam Ormes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access
>> to
>> Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
>> "Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much
>> easier to
>> read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.
>
>

Sorry, Try this link.

http://news.individual.net/

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Nutmeg Repair
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"Tony Marsillo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Try this free news server news.individual.net, it is free. All you have
> to do is register. You can use Outlook Express or any other news viewer.
>
> http://www.dfn.de/content/en/enhome/index.html
>
> --
> Tony Marsillo
> Nutmeg Repair
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> "Sam Ormes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access
>> to
>> Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
>> "Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much
>> easier to
>> read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.
>
>

That may be true, but I think this on is better that most. I use it instead
of my Optimum account. Here is a link to the number of days post are
retained.

http://news.individual.net/hierarchies.html


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"Robert Jacobs" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:fIRKd.660$wM.180@trnddc05...
> The problem with almost, and I mean 99.999999%, of free usnet servers is
> that they have almost no post retention and miss many parts of threads...
>
> "Tony Marsillo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Try this free news server news.individual.net, it is free. All you have
>> to do is register. You can use Outlook Express or any other news viewer.
>>
>> http://www.dfn.de/content/en/enhome/index.html
>>
>> --
>> Tony Marsillo
>> Nutmeg Repair
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> "Sam Ormes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access
>>> to
>>> Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
>>> "Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much
>>> easier to
>>> read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.
>>
>>
>
>

"Sam Ormes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> AOL has informed users that in early 2005 that service will stop access to
> Newsgroups. Bummer. Sure, I can get to Newsgroups using the new Google
> "Groups" feature or thru IE.....but the AOL format for Usenet is much
> easier to
> read and manage. Send AOL a nasty email if this bothers you too.

Better yet, just quit giving monopolistic AOL your money. AOL, ever since it
first got into the internet, has been cruddy relative to smaller locally
owned ISP's. In spite of a wonderful marketing effort by AOL, that is still
true today. Their biggest source of customers has always been dependent of
those who are technologically illiterate and quite naive about the internet
and service available. Almost any locally owned smaller ISP is far better,
far less manipulating and far less Spam ridden than the likes of AOL. When
it comes to ISP's smaller is almost -always- better, and has been ever since
the invention of the internet. And yes, I have subscribed to both CompuServe
<owned by AOL) and AOL 4 or 5 different times since 1988, so I speak about
them with experience. If you are a technologically illiterate grandma who
only want's to send email to her grand kids, AOL is probably for you, but
anyone with higher expectations than that can do a lot better with a smaller
more diverse locally owned ISP, even it costs 2 or 3 bucks a month more. The
marketeers of a giant ISP canceling newsgroups is absurd.