James Dearing wrote in news:Wb2dnT4--
_pjlXHVnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@comcast.com:

> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:29 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>
>> I got a message from my provider (Comcast) that they were not going to
>> carry news anymore but I could sign up for Giganews starting at a basic
>> 2GB/month and up to whatever my wallet can afford. On top of that insult
>> they now want sell me a 16Mb upgrade from my 7.75Mb for $10 more per
>> month.
>
> I got the same message. I'm considering using Teranews (http://
> teranews.com/) as my replacement server.


Been using the freebie news.motzarella.org server for a couple of months
now....been really good. No binaries though. Small niggle....several
groups I subscribed to, that where listed in the master newsgroup list
(newsrc??) returned a "newsgroup not found on server" error message; the
approx 30 others I subscribe to seem to work just fine. :-)

James Dearing wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:29 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>
>
>> I got a message from my provider (Comcast) that they were not going to
>> carry news anymore but I could sign up for Giganews starting at a basic
>> 2GB/month and up to whatever my wallet can afford. On top of that insult
>> they now want sell me a 16Mb upgrade from my 7.75Mb for $10 more per
>> month.
>>
>
> I got the same message. I'm considering using Teranews (http://
> teranews.com/) as my replacement server.
>
> And I agree about the President.
>
>
Both Bush's and Ronnie. I say that because they have caused the USA to
tank and ran up the national debt starting with Reagan, leveling it out
in Clinton's time and Baby Bush just about killing the country I grew up
in. Jimmy Carter had the national debt, not so Reagan.
Bill Baka

James Dearing wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:29 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>
>> I got a message from my provider (Comcast) that they were not going to
>> carry news anymore but I could sign up for Giganews starting at a basic
>> 2GB/month and up to whatever my wallet can afford. On top of that insult
>> they now want sell me a 16Mb upgrade from my 7.75Mb for $10 more per
>> month.
>
> I got the same message. I'm considering using Teranews (http://
> teranews.com/) as my replacement server.
>
> And I agree about the President.
>
I have been using Terra News free for a year and it is just fine. No
problems and all the NG,s I need.

Frank
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:12:30 -0500, James Dearing wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:29 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>
>> I got a message from my provider (Comcast) that they were not going to
>> carry news anymore but I could sign up for Giganews starting at a basic
>> 2GB/month and up to whatever my wallet can afford. On top of that
>> insult they now want sell me a 16Mb upgrade from my 7.75Mb for $10 more
>> per month.
>
> I got the same message. I'm considering using Teranews (http://
> teranews.com/) as my replacement server.
>
> And I agree about the President.

news.individual.net will run one euro per month.

propman wrote:
> James Dearing wrote in news:Wb2dnT4--
> _pjlXHVnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@comcast.com:
>
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:29 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>>
>>> I got a message from my provider (Comcast) that they were not
>>> going to carry news anymore but I could sign up for Giganews
>>> starting at a basic 2GB/month and up to whatever my wallet can
>>> afford. On top of that insult they now want sell me a 16Mb
>>> upgrade from my 7.75Mb for $10 more per month.
>> I got the same message. I'm considering using Teranews (http://
>> teranews.com/) as my replacement server.
>
>
> Been using the freebie news.motzarella.org server for a couple of
> months now....been really good. No binaries though. Small
> niggle....several groups I subscribed to, that where listed in the
> master newsgroup list (newsrc??) returned a "newsgroup not found
> on server" error message; the approx 30 others I subscribe to seem
> to work just fine. :-)
>
>

Even with the recent influx of users abandoned by their ISP's, I'm
unaware of any other newsgroup even approaching the speedy, friendly,
and reliable feedback of motzarella.info

Have you asked there for access to the elusive (non binary) groups?

--
Bob
ha-ha, and Ray won't bump this as spam either

frankjg wrote:

> I have been using Terra News free for a year and it is just fine. No
> problems and all the NG,s I need.
>
> Frank
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

I tried teranews for a while, but I found it horribly slow, and often
unreliable. I moved to the very inexpensive, paid-for /individual/ and
have had no further problems.


C.

Bob wrote:
> propman wrote:
>> James Dearing wrote in news:Wb2dnT4--
>> _pjlXHVnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@comcast.com:
>>
>>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:29 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>>>
>>>> I got a message from my provider (Comcast) that they were not going
>>>> to carry news anymore but I could sign up for Giganews starting at a
>>>> basic 2GB/month and up to whatever my wallet can
>>>> afford. On top of that insult they now want sell me a 16Mb upgrade
>>>> from my 7.75Mb for $10 more per month.
>>> I got the same message. I'm considering using Teranews (http://
>>> teranews.com/) as my replacement server.
>>
>>
>> Been using the freebie news.motzarella.org server for a couple of
>> months now....been really good. No binaries though. Small
>> niggle....several groups I subscribed to, that where listed in the
>> master newsgroup list (newsrc??) returned a "newsgroup not found on
>> server" error message; the approx 30 others I subscribe to seem
>> to work just fine. :-)
>>
>>
>
> Even with the recent influx of users abandoned by their ISP's, I'm
> unaware of any other newsgroup even approaching the speedy, friendly,
> and reliable feedback of motzarella.info
>
> Have you asked there for access to the elusive (non binary) groups?
>

Oops.

I should have checked first :-(
For group requests, its:- motzarella.grouprequests

HTH

--
Bob
"I don't believe in evil, I believe in right and wrong, and very
often they are the same thing"-Paul Theroux, in Milroy the Magician.

James Dearing wrote the following in
alt.os.linux.ubuntu on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:12:30 GMT

> I got the same message. I'm considering using Teranews (http://
> teranews.com/) as my replacement server.

They suck as a free usenet service. I'd recommend aioe.org or
motzarella.org. If you're more into binaries you may need to consider a
paid service though.

--
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bob wrote in news:gciebb$4hk$1
@registered.motzarella.org:

>> Even with the recent influx of users abandoned by their ISP's, I'm
>> unaware of any other newsgroup even approaching the speedy, friendly,
>> and reliable feedback of motzarella.info
>>
>> Have you asked there for access to the elusive (non binary) groups?
>>
>
> Oops.
>
> I should have checked first :-(
> For group requests, its:- motzarella.grouprequests
>
> HTH
>


Thanks for sending this along, Bob....much appreciated. :-)

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:48:22 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:

> Both Bush's and Ronnie. I say that because they have caused the USA to
> tank and ran up the national debt starting with Reagan, leveling it out
> in Clinton's time and Baby Bush just about killing the country I grew up
> in. Jimmy Carter had the national debt, not so Reagan.

I always knew you were clueless, but this is your best proof yet.

Hard to believe that a human being can be this stupid, and yet have enough
brain function to continue breathing.

Here's a couple of pics to broaden your political knowledge:

http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/republican.jpg
http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/liberalbear.jpg



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The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org

frankjg wrote:
> James Dearing wrote:
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:29 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>>
>>> I got a message from my provider (Comcast) that they were not going to
>>> carry news anymore but I could sign up for Giganews starting at a basic
>>> 2GB/month and up to whatever my wallet can afford. On top of that
>>> insult
>>> they now want sell me a 16Mb upgrade from my 7.75Mb for $10 more per
>>> month.
>>
>> I got the same message. I'm considering using Teranews (http://
>> teranews.com/) as my replacement server.
>>
>> And I agree about the President.
>>
> I have been using Terra News free for a year and it is just fine. No
> problems and all the NG,s I need.
>
> Frank
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
I went there and Giganews and they both wanted $$$ to join.
Where does free come at?
Bill Baka

Bill Baka wrote the following in alt.os.linux.ubuntu on
Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:25:55 GMT

> I went there and Giganews and they both wanted $$$ to join.
> Where does free come at?

AIOE or Motzarella doesn't require $$ to sign up IIRC.

--
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than
sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dan C wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:48:22 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>
>
>> Both Bush's and Ronnie. I say that because they have caused the USA to
>> tank and ran up the national debt starting with Reagan, leveling it out
>> in Clinton's time and Baby Bush just about killing the country I grew up
>> in. Jimmy Carter had the national debt, not so Reagan.
>>
>
> I always knew you were clueless, but this is your best proof yet.
>
> Hard to believe that a human being can be this stupid, and yet have enough
> brain function to continue breathing.
>
> Here's a couple of pics to broaden your political knowledge:
>
> http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/republican.jpg
> http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/liberalbear.jpg
>
>
>
> You are die hard Republican so please do it before you can vote.
Republicans are flat out corrupt idiots.
I registered Democrat this year but I will cross party lines if I need to.
I have run into people who vote a straight Republican ticket no matter
who is running.
How about a McCain doll with a pull string on the back (or batteries)
for a "Bush was good but McCain is better".
I go from measure to measure and the local officials and just try to
pick out the 'least stupid or corrupt'.
Bill Baka

In article <48ed3522$0$31762$6d5eeec5@news.tigerusenet.com>, Ghostintheshell wrote:
>Bill Baka wrote the following in alt.os.linux.ubuntu on
>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:25:55 GMT
>
>> I went there and Giganews and they both wanted $$$ to join.
>> Where does free come at?
>
>AIOE or Motzarella doesn't require $$ to sign up IIRC.

Aioe are responsive too and run a useful aioe.news.helpdesk group.

Bruce Sinclair wrote:
> In article <48ed3522$0$31762$6d5eeec5@news.tigerusenet.com>, Ghostintheshell wrote:
>> AIOE or Motzarella doesn't require $$ to sign up IIRC.
>>
>
> Aioe are responsive too and run a useful aioe.news.helpdesk group.
>
Thanks to all. Now I have 3 sources. So far I have been using my friends
SBCGlobal account and all is good except for no binaries at all.
Bill Baka

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:16:13 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:

>> Here's a couple of pics to broaden your political knowledge:
>>
>> http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/republican.jpg
>> http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/liberalbear.jpg

> Republicans are flat out corrupt idiots.

Right. There's no corruption among Dimocrats, though, eh? Does the name
Charlie Rangel ring a bell?

> How about a McCain doll with a pull string on the back (or batteries)
> for a "Bush was good but McCain is better".

I'm no McCain fan. I will be voting for him, however, considering the
only other choice I have to choose from.

> I go from measure to measure and the local officials and just try to
> pick out the 'least stupid or corrupt'.

Not a bad strategy. See above regarding reasons to choose McCain.

Obama is nothing but a socialist who wants to make the US a cesspool of
government handouts and high taxes. His ultimate goal of course is to
model the US after one of the former USSR bloc countries.


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On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:33:06 +0000, Bruce Sinclair wrote:

>>AIOE or Motzarella doesn't require $$ to sign up IIRC.

> Aioe are responsive too and run a useful aioe.news.helpdesk group.

AIOE is a well-known haven of trolls, spammers, and general assholes.
Many folks filter out all posts which originate from such a sewer.


--
"Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org

On 2008-10-09, Dan C wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:16:13 -0700, Bill Baka wrote:
>
>>> Here's a couple of pics to broaden your political knowledge:
>>>
>>> http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/republican.jpg
>>> http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/liberalbear.jpg
>
>> Republicans are flat out corrupt idiots.
>
> Right. There's no corruption among Dimocrats, though, eh? Does the name
> Charlie Rangel ring a bell?
>
>> How about a McCain doll with a pull string on the back (or batteries)
>> for a "Bush was good but McCain is better".
>
> I'm no McCain fan. I will be voting for him, however, considering the
> only other choice I have to choose from.

There are other choices, though everyone in this country seems to
ignore them. We prattle on about needing better choices, but always
come back to voting for the big 2, then complaining about how they are
****ing up the country.

I haven't voted for a Democrat OR a Republican for president since I
first started voting. I won't be starting now. I'll vote for one of
the big 2 when they give me a candidate that actually has the interest
of the people of the country in mind with his policies. Neither of
these bozos could give a **** less...


--
Joe - Linux User #449481/Ubuntu User #19733
joe at hits - buffalo dot com
"Hate is baggage, life is too short to go around pissed off all the
time..." - Danny, American History X

Dan C wrote:
>
>> Republicans are flat out corrupt idiots.
>>
Just more corrupt than the Democrats is all.
>
> Right. There's no corruption among Dimocrats, though, eh? Does the name
> Charlie Rangel ring a bell?
>
Democrats are not stupid but they have had their hands tied for the last
many elections.
>
>> How about a McCain doll with a pull string on the back (or batteries)
>> for a "Bush was good but McCain is better".
>>
>
> I'm no McCain fan. I will be voting for him, however, considering the
> only other choice I have to choose from.
>
If you vote for McCain that will just hasten us to most hated country in
the world.
I support our troops, just not that idiot in the white house. The best
support for our troops would be to send them home and Bush over there so
he could at least claim to be "In harms way".
>
>> I go from measure to measure and the local officials and just try to
>> pick out the 'least stupid or corrupt'.
>>
>
> Not a bad strategy. See above regarding reasons to choose McCain.
>
He's too old and most likely we would get 4 more years of this crap. We
are effectively bankrupt as a country.
> Obama is nothing but a socialist who wants to make the US a cesspool of
> government handouts and high taxes. His ultimate goal of course is to
> model the US after one of the former USSR bloc countries.
>
> McCain I might believe that, but not with Obama.
>
I was born in Chicago and my dad taught me one thing, never ever go on
foot, bus, or el to the south.
If Obama wants to be taken seriously he needs to lose all ties to that
area, and not just his church.
Bill Baka