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I subscribe to a number of newgroups, ranging from IT related to health and of
course this one.

I have to say that the uk.d-i-y one is by FAR the best.

Brilliant exchange of ideas and genuinely good advice.

A thank you to everyone over the years who has contributed and helped me.

The best newsgroup around
 

On 29/07/2012 17:26, S R wrote:
I subscribe to a number of newgroups, ranging from IT related to
health and of course this one.

I have to say that the uk.d-i-y one is by FAR the best.

Brilliant exchange of ideas and genuinely good advice.

A thank you to everyone over the years who has contributed and helped me.


I feel the same, although I am not subscribed to any others but I find
it a lot better than some of the forums I browse/post to.

--
David

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gremlin_95 wrote:
On 29/07/2012 17:26, S R wrote:
I subscribe to a number of newgroups, ranging from IT related to
health and of course this one.

I have to say that the uk.d-i-y one is by FAR the best.

Brilliant exchange of ideas and genuinely good advice.

A thank you to everyone over the years who has contributed and helped me.


I feel the same, although I am not subscribed to any others but I find
it a lot better than some of the forums I browse/post to.

I do my best to ruin it by posting ****e.

Bill

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On 29/07/2012 17:26, S R wrote:
I subscribe to a number of newgroups, ranging from IT related to health
and of course this one.

I have to say that the uk.d-i-y one is by FAR the best.

Brilliant exchange of ideas and genuinely good advice.

A thank you to everyone over the years who has contributed and helped me.


Have to agree it's a good usenet group ... been here since 1995 ...
when you had to use trn or similar to access.

The amount of off topic cross-posting seems to have reduced, (mainly
selling trainers/Rolex/Viagra or some Religious fanaticism) it got so
bad a while back I avoided using group for over a year.

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Rick Hughes wrote:
On 29/07/2012 17:26, S R wrote:
I subscribe to a number of newgroups, ranging from IT related to
health and of course this one.

I have to say that the uk.d-i-y one is by FAR the best.

Brilliant exchange of ideas and genuinely good advice.

A thank you to everyone over the years who has contributed and
helped me.

Have to agree it's a good usenet group ... been here since 1995 ...
when you had to use trn or similar to access.

The amount of off topic cross-posting seems to have reduced, (mainly
selling trainers/Rolex/Viagra or some Religious fanaticism) it got so
bad a while back I avoided using group for over a year.

That's because you never bothered to learn how to filter out such garbage,
it takes less than 5 minutes and you'll never see another ad for trainers
again.

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michael 'media phrase man' newport :
On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 16:34:11 +0100, "Phil L"
wrote:

Rick Hughes wrote:
On 29/07/2012 17:26, S R wrote:
I subscribe to a number of newgroups, ranging from IT related to
health and of course this one.

I have to say that the uk.d-i-y one is by FAR the best.

Brilliant exchange of ideas and genuinely good advice.

A thank you to everyone over the years who has contributed and
helped me.

Have to agree it's a good usenet group ... been here since 1995 ...
when you had to use trn or similar to access.

The amount of off topic cross-posting seems to have reduced, (mainly
selling trainers/Rolex/Viagra or some Religious fanaticism) it got so
bad a while back I avoided using group for over a year.

That's because you never bothered to learn how to filter out such garbage,
it takes less than 5 minutes and you'll never see another ad for trainers
again.


How do you filter such garbage in less than 5 minutes? (Just asking
for OP) :-)

I pay someone the remarkably reasonable sum of EUR 10 a year to do it
for me.

http://www.individual.net/

trainers? Rolex? Viagra? Religious fanaticism? I don't see any of it.

--
Mike Barnes

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In article ,
Mike Barnes wrote:
How do you filter such garbage in less than 5 minutes? (Just asking
for OP) :-)

I pay someone the remarkably reasonable sum of EUR 10 a year to do it
for me.

http://www.individual.net/

trainers? Rolex? Viagra? Religious fanaticism? I don't see any of it.

Very little here either using a free provider.

--
*Work is for people who don't know how to fish.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

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"Huge" wrote in message
...
On 2012-08-02, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Mike Barnes wrote:
How do you filter such garbage in less than 5 minutes? (Just asking
for OP) :-)

I pay someone the remarkably reasonable sum of EUR 10 a year to do it
for me.

http://www.individual.net/

trainers? Rolex? Viagra? Religious fanaticism? I don't see any of it.

Very little here either using a free provider.

I wonder how much spam there is on Usenet these days.

Still quite a bit in some groups.

Is it worth the spammers while any more given the withering away of text
Usenet,

Since it costs them nothing to spam, presumably.

the reduction in the number of servers, most of whom are
commercial and operate a vigorous anti-spam policy?

Plenty don’t.

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On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:56:49 +0000, Huge wrote:

Best newsreader (GUI) I ever used was called ProNews/2. These days I
use pan.

I regard changing newsreaders with the same joy as changing text editors
and having abdominal surgery.

I agree. If I'd had the time to port ProNews to BSD, I'd have done it.

--
Use the BIG mirror service in the UK:
http://www.mirrorservice.org

*lightning protection* - a w_tom conductor

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Huge wrote:
On 2012-08-03, Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:56:49 +0000, Huge wrote:

Best newsreader (GUI) I ever used was called ProNews/2. These days I
use pan.
I regard changing newsreaders with the same joy as changing text editors
and having abdominal surgery.
I agree. If I'd had the time to port ProNews to BSD, I'd have done it.

I looked into porting xvnews onto Linux. For about 30 seconds.


:-)



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To people who know too much, it is a sad fact
that they know how little is really possible -
and how hard it is to achieve it.

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In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Golly. I go back to the 80s when 'rn' was all there was.....and TCP/IP
was a strange protocol that connected Unix computers in American campuses.


Heh. I'm still using trn (one day I'll move on if I really have to :-))

Darren

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Bill Wright wrote:
gremlin_95 wrote:
On 29/07/2012 17:26, S R wrote:
I subscribe to a number of newgroups, ranging from IT related to
health and of course this one.

I have to say that the uk.d-i-y one is by FAR the best.

Brilliant exchange of ideas and genuinely good advice.

A thank you to everyone over the years who has contributed and
helped me.

I feel the same, although I am not subscribed to any others but I
find it a lot better than some of the forums I browse/post to.

I do my best to ruin it by posting ****e.

There are far less qualified people than you doing that:-)
--
Adam