On 25 Jan 2005 17:33:39 GMT, ojunk (Phil Axtell)
wrote:

Hi all,

Today AOL informed me they are no longer going to be supporting
newsgroups...this one in particular. I downloaded Mozilla and installed it as
they suggested, but alas, I can't get to rec.crafts.woodturning.

Can anyone here walk me through setting Mozilla up for this newsgroup? I would
be eternally grateful. There must be a lot of other AOL subscribers having the
same problem. Aren't there? Or am I the only slow one?

Thanks,

Phil Axtell


using Mozilla, or any other application that will read newsgroups, you
still need someone to supply the 'feed' that AOL says they are
dropping. You can pay for a service, you can read this group thru
Google...which is ok, but a compromise on features...or you can sign
up with http://individual.net/ this is a German university server that
will give you 'most' of the non-binary groups. I have been using it
for months now, and it is very good....the catch is, it is not an
automated process....every application is hand-processed by real
people as time permits, so it might take them a week or two to get you
added. It WILL be worth it though, unless you need the binary
(pictures and music) groups.

Of course, my first advice would be to get away from AOL and get a
real ISP where all this is not a problem.