Re: Bummer...RR to discontinue newgroup service

Mr Clean <mrclean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:09:34 -0500, Joann Zimmerman wrote:
> 
>> In article <6bqnjvF3bldtpU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
>>> Omelet wrote:
>>>> Why don't they just set up filters?  It's not difficult.  I sub to
two 
>>> 
>>> Because that would require work on their part. Time Warner does not
like 
>>> to work for their customers. :-/
>>> 
>>>> Keyword filters work and if they did it right, it'd not filter many
of 
>>>> the legit posts.
>>> 
>>> I use news.individual.net, it's not free (something ridiculous like 10

>>> bucks a year), but it's 99.99% free of bogus posts as well as spam.
>> 
>> Ten euros. I've been using them for years; no real complaints. (I do
see 
>> some spam headers I'd rather not, but it's usually quite easy to
avoid.)
>> Note that they don't do any binary groups.
> 
> So let me get this straight, I'd just plug "news.individual.net"
> into the space that's currently occupied by "news.rr.com" (or
> whatever), and then I'll get newsgroups as usual?  After I pay them
> the 10 euros, dollars, etc, of course.  Yes?

Yes.

Or you can plug in news.aioe.org and not have to pay the $12.
(N.I.N is probably more reliable though).

-sw