On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:22:42 -0700, fredg <fgutkind@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:48:25 -0400, Chuck wrote:
>
>> I've been spoiled rotten. My ISP (schoollink.net) has been providing
news
>> group downloads as part of its regular service for as long as it has
been in
>> existence. It stops July 10. NewsGuy has been suggested as an
alternative.
>> Their basic plan will cover all I would need, but I'm sure I want to
spend $8 a
>> month for the four groups I monitor. Is there another option.
>>
>> I use Agent as my news reader. It keeps track of the headers which
I've
>> already downloaded so when I download new headers it picks up where I
left off.
>> Then I mark the headers of the few posts I'm interested in and download
the
>> bodies only for the marked messages. The total volume of the downloads
>> (headers plus messages is really quite small).
>>
>> Chuck
>
>Here are a couple of free ones.
>
>For Text newsgroups only (no binaries) posting and reading allowed
>Free....
>nntp.aioe.org
>
>For Microsoft newsgroups only (posting and reading allowed)
>Free....
>msnews.microsoft.com
>
>For others...
>http://www.disenter.com/index.php?sort=groups&order=DESC
Microsoft newsgroups sounds good. The news groups I monitor are:
comp.databases.ms-access, microsoft.public.access.formscoding,
microsoft.public.access.re****ts, and comp.lang.basic.visual.
Thank you for your help.
Chuck
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