On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:59:45 -0500, Markem
wrote:

On 9 Aug 2005 07:43:13 -0700, "Andy" wrote:

I was just reading your post thinking, "man, that stinks", when a few
minutes later it happens to me too. They think I'm not subscribed to
any groups, and clear all the "starred" topics I'm watching. What's up
with that? Any advice?

Teranews and Gravity as a newsreader. Teranews is free ($3.95) initial
charge (keeps the spammers and trolls away). Gravity is free just
search for Tom's Gravity page.

Mark

Had absolutely horrible luck using Teranews -- abandoned the account
before it had expired just out of frustration and started using Supernews.
Much more civilized and reliable. With Teranews, I couldn't see most of
the pictures on abpw, attempting to open many of them would cause Gravity
to hang such that I had to close it, sometimes the hang was so bad it would
wipe out my subscribed groups. They seemed to reset newsgroup numbering
quite regularly, again requiring re-subscribe and sort out the old posts
from the new. Worst of all, it was unreliable, there were times when I
could go for days without being able to access groups because the the
server was unreachable. Tried both the "free" $3.95 account and (stupidly)
thought the paid service would be better. e-mail to support was most often
not answered, or when it was answered, the answer had little relevance to
the related problem.





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