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"Gregory Gadow" |
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30 Jul 2003 08:30:25 AM |
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OT: What news service? |
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| User: "JTEM" |
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| Title: Re: What news service? |
30 Jul 2003 02:16:37 PM |
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"Gregory Gadow" <techbear@serv.net> wrote
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and
every other group to which I post), I will blame my
news service, Giganews.
How often do you post?
I see you (like now) but not every day.
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: What news service? |
30 Jul 2003 02:50:02 PM |
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JTEM wrote:
"Gregory Gadow" <techbear@serv.net> wrote
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and
every other group to which I post), I will blame my
news service, Giganews.
How often do you post?
I see you (like now) but not every day.
That is the problem, I do most pretty much every day. And it is not just
alt.atheism where I have a problem, either. Posts show up quickly in
Google Groups, but it seems that most people never read my stuff
in-group.
Call me egotistical, but I'd like to think I'm writing stuff that is
worth reading :-)
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: What news service? |
31 Jul 2003 10:00:12 AM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:50:02 -0700, Gregory Gadow wrote:
JTEM wrote:
"Gregory Gadow" <techbear@serv.net> wrote
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews.
How often do you post?
I see you (like now) but not every day.
That is the problem, I do most pretty much every day. And it is not just
alt.atheism where I have a problem, either. Posts show up quickly in
Google Groups, but it seems that most people never read my stuff in-group.
Call me egotistical, but I'd like to think I'm writing stuff that is worth
reading :-)
We were all waiting until it got real quiet then we were gonna jump out at
ya and yell "BOO!"
You went an' spoiled the fun!
--
Mark K. Bilbo #1423 EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
________________________________________________________________
"You are not a fiscal conservative when the deficit runs
to $400 billion on your watch."
- Stan Collender, Fleishman-Hillard Inc.
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| User: "diem" |
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| Title: Re: OT: What news service? |
30 Jul 2003 09:53:31 AM |
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In article <3F27C871.D2F8E46@serv.net>, says...
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
news.cis.dfn.de
you have to register, takes a day or two but is free and very good.
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Diem 1459
(email dm at diemzone not news)
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| User: "William Klee" |
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| Title: Re: OT: What news service? |
31 Jul 2003 10:03:35 PM |
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In article <MPG.1991ec44df5a51e89896b1@news.cis.dfn.de>, diem
<news@diemzone.co.uk> wrote:
In article <3F27C871.D2F8E46@serv.net>, says...
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
news.cis.dfn.de
you have to register, takes a day or two but is free and very good.
That's the one I've been using, ever since kennie *****-born told
newsfeeds I was spamming.
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| User: "Sean C" |
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30 Jul 2003 04:30:43 PM |
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In article <3F27C871.D2F8E46@serv.net>, Gregory Gadow
<techbear@serv.net> wrote:
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
I would recommend newsfeeds.com, which has text-only and binary-only
newsservers, mixed newservers, and spamkiller-newservers. Here is a
list of their packages and servers:
http://www.newsfeeds.com/servers.htm
The "basic" package gives you 750 mb of binary downloads per day and
access to two text-only servers for $9.95 a month. I've been very happy
with them.
Sean C
----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups
---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =---
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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| Title: Re: OT: What news service? |
04 Aug 2003 03:42:52 AM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:30:25 -0700, Gregory Gadow
<techbear@serv.net> wrote:
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
Why would anyone want to killfile you here? I've seen your
messages whenever my computer allows me into the
newsgroup. I've been having tons of trouble ever since I
signed up for McAfee's Privacy Service. It has me blocked
out of nearly all websites (including McAfee's!) and replaces
any kind of vulgarity or cursewords or even words like hell or
Satan with # signs in the newsgroup. It's really ridiculous.
And, I can't even locate it with Search/Folders. Every other
McAfee program shows up but not McAfee Privacy Service.
They must have it hidden under another name. I sent a
message to McAfee and am waiting to hear from them. I
simply want to uninstall this program.
I also have to wait for a very long time to sign onto the
computer and keep getting error message:user32.dll is
missing. Does anyone know how I can add this back on?
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Michelle Malkin (Mickey)
http://questioner.www2.50megs.com
atheist/agnostic list ordainer
EAC Bible thumper thumper
BAAWA Knight who says SPONG!
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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30 Jul 2003 10:38:52 PM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:30:25 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
posted in alt.atheism:
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa
Not by me. I see many of your posts.
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"A truly unselfish act would be a Christian volunteering to have his soul take your
soul's place in hell, so yours could go to Heaven. Don't hold your breath."
- John Popelish
&
"The United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"
- Treaty of Tripoli, 1797, ratified by Congress
rukbat at optonline dot net
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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31 Jul 2003 08:05:08 AM |
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Thanks for all the suggestions :-) I will look in to that news service in Germany, and a
few other leads.
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"If you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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31 Jul 2003 09:59:25 AM |
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On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 06:05:08 -0700, Gregory Gadow wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions :-) I will look in to that news service in
Germany, and a few other leads.
I keep the one in Germany as a "back up" now. It's free so it's worth
having around in case of connection problems (or during the move, it was
my only access).
On the other hand, they do have some posting limits and such. It's fairly
high but if you're very active, you may bump into them...
--
Mark K. Bilbo #1423 EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
________________________________________________________________
"You are not a fiscal conservative when the deficit runs
to $400 billion on your watch."
- Stan Collender, Fleishman-Hillard Inc.
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| User: "raven1" |
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30 Jul 2003 03:14:46 PM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:30:25 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
wrote:
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
I use Giganews, and my posts appear practically instantaneously.
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| User: "johac" |
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01 Aug 2003 01:04:28 AM |
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In article <lo9givoh2tuoh3ctknfvhsgcgvvf8egb8a@4ax.com>,
raven1 <psychedelephant@flashmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:30:25 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net>
wrote:
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
I use Giganews, and my posts appear practically instantaneously.
I'll second that. I switched to Giganews about nine months ago and
it's been great.
--
John Hachmann, aa #1782
"In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed,
miracles ceased; but in those parts that are barbarous and ignorant,
miracles are still in vogue." -Letters of Ethan Allen to Thomas Jefferson
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| User: "Apostate" |
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30 Jul 2003 02:01:40 PM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:30:25 -0700, Gregory Gadow <techbear@serv.net> wrote in alt.atheism:
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
One approach to consider is farming your own.
By that I mean using a proxy server that collects articles from numerous remote
servers, then pools them and serves them to your news client. I currently download
simultaneously from half a dozen servers, all free. The proxy server I use is called
Hamster. Download at: http://www.tglsoft.de/misc/hamster_en.htm
Getting-started guide at: http://clients.net2000.com.au/~johnf/hamster2
Free nntp servers list (among others) at: http://www.newzbot.com/
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/Apostate
atheist #1931 I've found it!
BAAWA Knife AND SMASHer
EAC Supernumerary Deputy Director, Department of Redundancy Department
plonked by vernon; NEW! IMPROVED! plonked by Lani_girl
I doubt, therefore I might be.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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30 Jul 2003 09:53:20 AM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:30:25 -0700, Gregory Gadow wrote:
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps on
board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other group
to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like to
switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
Supernews.
I've been very happy with them.
--
Mark K. Bilbo #1423 EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
________________________________________________________________
"...lying is central to the survival of nations and to the
success of great enterprises, because if our enemies can
count on the reliability of everything you say, your
vulnerability is enormously increased."
- Michael Ledeen, neo-con leader
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| User: "quibbler" |
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30 Jul 2003 02:51:08 PM |
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In article <pan.2003.07.30.14.53.19.947297@eac.org>,
says...
"...lying is central to the survival of nations and to the
success of great enterprises, because if our enemies can
count on the reliability of everything you say, your
vulnerability is enormously increased."
- Michael Ledeen, neo-con leader
Well in that case Georgie and crew must consider the american people
their "enemies", because they have been lying their asses off to us about
damn near everything.
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Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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30 Jul 2003 05:13:06 PM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:51:08 -0600, quibbler wrote:
In article <pan.2003.07.30.14.53.19.947297@eac.org>,
says...
"...lying is central to the survival of nations and to the success of
great enterprises, because if our enemies can count on the reliability of
everything you say, your vulnerability is enormously increased." -
Michael Ledeen, neo-con leader
Well in that case Georgie and crew must consider the american people their
"enemies", because they have been lying their asses off to us about damn
near everything.
Actually, that's the neo-con justification for lying to *everybody. See,
your "enemies" hear your public speeches. The ones you give to your own
people. And, since you don't want the "enemies" to know what's going on...
--
Mark K. Bilbo #1423 EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
________________________________________________________________
"You are not a fiscal conservative when the deficit runs
to $400 billion on your watch."
- Stan Collender, Fleishman-Hillard Inc.
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| User: "JPG" |
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30 Jul 2003 03:21:31 PM |
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 12:04:05 -0600, quibbler <quibbler247@yahoo.com> wrote:
In article <3F27C871.D2F8E46@serv.net>, says...
This is getting annoying. I will post something and no one responds.
Someone will post the same thing *six hours latter*, and everyone jumps
on board that thread.
Assuming that I am not killfiled by everyone in aa (and every other
group to which I post), I will blame my news service, Giganews. I'd like
to switch to a different one, one with less lag time between post and
appearance. Suggestions?
Angelico (I think that was her name) once posted something about this
german news server called news.cis.dfn.de.
The Free University of Berlin (who run the service) have changed the server name
to
news.individual.net
for private individuals, although the old name will still work.
Details at www.news.individual.net
You just have to go to their
web page (which has an english translation) and ask them to make you a
free account. It usually takes a couple days at most. I'll dig up more
detailed info for you if you want to go this route. I've had no
complaints and the posting time seems to be pretty much instantaneous.
They seem to have a pretty large selection of groups, though some binary,
warez and ebook groups are not carried.
It is a text only server and sensibly will bounce posts crossposted to obnoxious
newsgroups, like alt.flame.*****.
As someone else mentioned, I have never had any problem with it and posts
invariably appear in seconds.
Sorry, forgot to mention, it's free.
JPG
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