Richard Clements wrote:

if your going to uses an ISP's news server, you have to have an account
with them or be on there network, there are pay for news servers out
there and there are really bad free ones

news.readfreenews.net is good for text groups like this one, but doesn't carry
binaries. I don't know if Mike is allowing new members a this time or not,
but it doesn't hurt to look.

if you have AOL this looks like
a great time to switch ISPs people PC or earth link are about 1/2 the
price of AOL there still crappy but not nearly bad as AOL, also look
into some local ISP, they might have what your looking for at a good price


I use intergate for dialup at $9.95 a month. They get their news via
Supernews. So far (2-3 years) my only complaint is the support staff, but
that's common to all ISPs that I've tried. They all refuse to believe that a
customer knows what he's doing :-).

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