Its been fun guys

Another vote for Mozilla Firefox.

And against AOL.

Jan


Busman wrote:
>
> I agree completely on the Mozilla Firefox browser suggestion! Has been so
> much more stable than Internet Explorer and no secuirity issues to speak of.
> Andy
>
> > wrote in message
> ups.com...
> >
> > You may wish to try isp.com as your provider, Mozilla/Firefox for your
> > browser. Google will give you access to most Usenet newsgroups.
> > Inexpensive and reliable.
> >
> > -R.S.Hoover
> >

teranews is another "free" service. They used to charge some sort of small fee to get started. It's my back up news
service.

>>>Mike

> Another vote for Mozilla Firefox.
>
> And against AOL.
>
> Jan

I.E. is losing ground....slowly.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1753221,00.asp

>>>Mike

On 1/24/2005 10:38 AM Bill Berckman wrote:

> Got the following message from AOL. Been on Ramva for 8 Years
>
> Please Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early 2005.

Time for the training wheels to come off. Get a real ISP, use Firefox as
your browser, and Thunderbird as your e-mail/newsgroup software.
www.mozilla.com is where you get the latter two, check your local
listings for a good ISP. In my neck of the woods I use adelphia, because
along with my cable TV stuff, they also provide high-speed Internet access.

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Bill Berckman wrote:
> Got the following message from AOL. Been on Ramva for 8 Years
>
> Please Note: The AOL Newsgroup service will be discontinued in early 2005.
>
> For members using AOL over a dial-up connection, you will no longer be able to
> access Newsgroups. If you have a separate high-speed connection, you can
> contact your broadband provider to see if they offer Newsgroups.
> Bill Berckman
> 67 Beetle
>
>
This is what I use; it works well and is free:
http://www.individual.net/

I also am an AOL user and have transferred to Google Newsgroups. It
seems to work fine

Sam
63 singlecab

On 2005-01-25, Mike64Bug > wrote:
>> Another vote for Mozilla Firefox.
>>
>> And against AOL.
>>
>> Jan
>
> I.E. is losing ground....slowly.
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1753221,00.asp

In the past month or so, gecko based browsers (mozilla, firefox)
finally overtook IE browsers in visits to my website.. 43.61%
gecko, 41.05% IE. Remaining percentage was various other browsers.

This on a site that gets ~7k hits per day, with ~8000 unique IP's
visiting in a month.

Don't know if that's a fair sample of the internet but it was
nice to see.

Thanks for the tip about Google. Am posting from there now.
Messageboard through AOL have been going downhill for the last month or
so. Was only getting a couple of messages a day, and sometimes none.

Good to hear. I wouldn't let AOL keep me away from a freakin newsgroup.
"Bill B." > wrote in message oups.com...
> Thanks for the tip about Google. Am posting from there now.
> Messageboard through AOL have been going downhill for the last month or
> so. Was only getting a couple of messages a day, and sometimes none.
>

Gee AOL sucks worse every day! Why are you (& anyone else) still with
them?
I access the groups via http://www.talkaboutautos.com
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~ Paul
aka "Tha Driver"

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