Posted by Els on 11/10/05 16:51

Safalra wrote:
> Els wrote:
>> Safalra wrote:
>>> Arne wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>> However, I don't understand why you and the other few are using GG and
>>>> not a mail- and/or newsreader. I would not be proud to be connected
>>>> with the 99% clueless GG users. :)
>>>
>>> Because while I know that my ISP (British Telecom) provides a usenet
>>> feed, searching their website for 'usenet' gives no results, as their
>>> site search engine is useless. I'm not going to pay for a feed when I
>>> know I can get one for free, but as I haven't found out the information
>>> about the free one, I can't use it either. So, in summary: I use Google
>>> Groups 'cause I'm too dumb to work out how to access Usenet through my
>>> ISP.
>>
>> Just one hint - maybe your ISP has the information you need stored
>> under 'news' or 'news server' or even 'news groups'. That's what my
>> Dutch ISP calls it. I only found out about the term Usenet when I was
>> already on it.
>
> Aha, I have found it! Not using BT's own useless search feature, but
> using Google:
>
> http://www.btinternet.com/new/content/help/servers.html
>
> The page is five years old (and I can't reach it through a BT site
> search), but a quick test with Outlook Express shows
> news.btinternet.com still works. Now I just need a decent newsreader
> for Windows - a quick Google search suggests XNews
> (http://xnews.newsguy.com/), but that site doesn't seem to have been
> updated recently (the latest news is dated '3-Feb-2003'). Still, it's
> not like Usenet has suddenly changed since 2003, so I'll give it a go.
>
> Hopefully then this will be my last ever post from Google Groups.

Go for 40tude Dialog.
Xnews is good, but not as good as Dialog ;-)

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