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jim rozen wrote:
In article , Dave Hinz says...
Ah. Another tactic I use, is that if a post is crossposted to 3 or more
groups, I don't see it. Killfile rule is based on two or more , in the
newsgroups: line. I suppose it's _possible_ that a legitimate message
could be posted to 3 or more groups and be on-topic for all of them,
but I never saw one; just trolling. I'm willing to miss an occasional
theoretical post, to improve my S:N ratio.
I'm really a throwback dinosaur here. I originally accessed
usent through dejanews - a web-based service.
Nope -- I've known throwback dinosaurs, and *you're* not one,
based on that.
I've accessed usenet with real unix-based newsreaders since the
days when I could only get a feed via uucp -- *long* before DejaNews
came into existence. Web-based access is "jhonny-come-lately" to me. :-)
And I ran my *own* news server, even back then, for the selected
newsgroups which I was interested in -- and those which my wife wanted,
too.)
After they went
bust I went to newsguy, which works great for me. Also web
based. I suspect that they have killfile capability but it
requires javascript and whatnot, which I won't enable.
I can understand not wanting to run JavaScript or ActiveX,
especially on Windows machines (the latter does not exist on any other
machines, thank God). :-)
A quick look at their site leads me to the following:
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"Newsguy members can access Usenet newsgroups with any NNTP
newsreader (Agent, MS Outlook, etc.) or with our Direct Read
News^(TM) web interface, which allows you to read, post, decode
and download newsgroup content with your web browser."
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Now -- NNTP is the protocol used by unix newsreaders, and lots
of other Windows-based ones as well (including Forte's Agent), so you
could use your own choice of newsreader. There is a price, but it seems
fairly reasonable to me, especially if you are already a Newsguy user.
(It looks as though you get that along with the web-based access for the
simple fee.)
I've never tried them, of course, because I don't *need* them.
But it looks as though you have more choices than you seem to realize.
Enjoy,
DoN.
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