Bub bye

Post by william ahearn
Hey,
Toodles, dudes. No way I'm getting a newsreader since I only read two
people here and they're on FB. I will miss all the racist, homophobic
bullshit and all the wankers crying about "woke." Fuck that.

Sniff…

The pig is on FB?

--
Bill Anderson

I am the Mighty Favog

moviePig

2024-02-20 21:21:43 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Irish Mike

2024-02-21 00:10:15 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Irish Mike

moviePig

2024-02-21 03:14:07 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

Eddie Grove

2024-02-22 07:20:58 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

While technically Astraweb is a pay site, I paid them $10 a *long* time
ago. Essentially unlimited text groups for life. However, the problem
with a thousand spam messages a day to r.a.tv means I would not
recommend them right now.

moviePig

2024-02-22 16:20:44 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

You paid a one-time $10? Indeed that must've been a *long* time ago.
I'm paying nearly $10/mo. now (and it keeps going up). Meanwhile, yeah,
the spam is repulsive, but Thunderbird lets me mostly filter it out.

Ted Nolan <tednolan>

2024-02-22 17:06:11 UTC

SniffâŠ
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

individual.net charges about $15/year for Usenet access (I say about because
the actual charge is in Euros).

--
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

moviePig

2024-02-22 17:57:33 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

individual.net charges about $15/year for Usenet access (I say about because
the actual charge is in Euros).

Thanks. They seem to want Paypal, but I'm a smartphone-less troglodyte.

Ted Nolan <tednolan>

2024-02-22 18:03:07 UTC

SniffâŠ
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

individual.net charges about $15/year for Usenet access (I say about because
the actual charge is in Euros).

Thanks. They seem to want Paypal, but I'm a smartphone-less troglodyte.

I don't use a smart phone either. Paypal works fine with a desktop browser.

--
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

moviePig

2024-02-22 20:26:38 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

individual.net charges about $15/year for Usenet access (I say about because
the actual charge is in Euros).

Thanks. They seem to want Paypal, but I'm a smartphone-less troglodyte.

I don't use a smart phone either. Paypal works fine with a desktop browser.

Ahah. Well, that does seem hard to beat...

Bice

2024-02-23 11:58:46 UTC

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>
individual.net charges about $15/year for Usenet access (I say about because
the actual charge is in Euros).

Thanks. They seem to want Paypal, but I'm a smartphone-less troglodyte.

I don't use a smart phone either. Paypal works fine with a desktop browser.

Ahah. Well, that does seem hard to beat...

Can't beat free:

https://www.eternal-september.org/

You just sign up for a free account to use their newsserver. I've
been using them for years (ever since Comcast shut down their
newsserver), along with Forte Agent newsreader software. Works great.

Only downside is that they don't do binaries, just plain text messages
(reading and posting).

-- Bob

Ted Nolan <tednolan>

2024-02-23 13:50:27 UTC

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>
individual.net charges about $15/year for Usenet access (I say

about because

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>
the actual charge is in Euros).

Thanks. They seem to want Paypal, but I'm a smartphone-less troglodyte.

I don't use a smart phone either. Paypal works fine with a desktop browser.

Ahah. Well, that does seem hard to beat...

https://www.eternal-september.org/
You just sign up for a free account to use their newsserver. I've
been using them for years (ever since Comcast shut down their
newsserver), along with Forte Agent newsreader software. Works great.
Only downside is that they don't do binaries, just plain text messages
(reading and posting).
-- Bob

I remember that I tried them and had some issue I can't now recall
and so moved to individual.net. That was years ago, so whatever I
didn't like is probably fixed.

--
columbiaclosings.com
What's not in Columbia anymore..

moviePig

2024-02-23 16:50:00 UTC

Post by Bice

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>
individual.net charges about $15/year for Usenet access (I say about because
the actual charge is in Euros).

Thanks. They seem to want Paypal, but I'm a smartphone-less troglodyte.

I don't use a smart phone either. Paypal works fine with a desktop browser.

Ahah. Well, that does seem hard to beat...

I detect a trend. Maybe I should wait for a server that pays *me*...

Your Name

2024-02-22 21:02:48 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

individual.net charges about $15/year for Usenet access (I say about
because the actual charge is in Euros).

Thanks. They seem to want Paypal, but I'm a smartphone-less troglodyte.

I don't use a smart phone either. Paypal works fine with a desktop browser.

Yep. I don't have ny mobile phone, and PayPal works fine thoruhg my
computer's web browser on the rare occasions I use it.

I used to use PayPal more often to buy books from BookDepository, but
the fools at Amazon bought that webstore up and then closed it down -
no doubt because it was chepaer than their own Amazon webstore! :-(

Eddie Grove

2024-02-23 00:50:53 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

You paid a one-time $10? Indeed that must've been a *long* time
ago. I'm paying nearly $10/mo. now (and it keeps going up).
Meanwhile, yeah, the spam is repulsive, but Thunderbird lets me mostly
filter it out.

Do you download massive numbers of binaries?
You should only use a monthly plan if you do so.

Otherwise, cancel your monthly account, and get a block account.
They are listed on the main page https://www.astraweb.com/

$10 for 25G of downloads. That's pretty much text groups for life.
$50 gets you 1000G. Do you download a terabyte every 5 months?

moviePig

2024-02-23 03:41:52 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?

Thunderbird (free) reading Astraweb (pay), currently.

You paid a one-time $10? Indeed that must've been a *long* time
ago. I'm paying nearly $10/mo. now (and it keeps going up).
Meanwhile, yeah, the spam is repulsive, but Thunderbird lets me mostly
filter it out.

Do you download massive numbers of binaries?
You should only use a monthly plan if you do so.
Otherwise, cancel your monthly account, and get a block account.
They are listed on the main page https://www.astraweb.com/
$10 for 25G of downloads. That's pretty much text groups for life.
$50 gets you 1000G. Do you download a terabyte every 5 months?

Thanks. Looks like I'll be doing that. (They don't mention block
accounts to monthly-plan cash-cows like me. I had to sneak into their
website via an explicit Google to see the offering.)

Lynn McGuire

2024-02-22 02:10:20 UTC

Sniff…
The pig is on FB?

No, the pig doesn't even have a smartphone. (Last of the clamshells.)
But, William, there are free newsreaders/servers, which should suffice
for non-vigorous usage.

Which news reader do you use Mr. Pig?
Irish Mike

Thunderbird (free) reading Eternal-September (free) usenet news server.

Lynn

william ahearn

2024-02-20 22:25:09 UTC