I have read and posted on rec.woodworking and
alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking (and other groups)for about 10 years.
These groups have been very helpful for the hobbiest woodworker to see other
peoples work, to post my work, and to ask questions regarding techniques,
etc. Unfortunately Comcast is now ending it's access to newsgroups in a
week or so, so I am looking for help regarding my options:
1. Are there any recommendations for woodworking web sites that provide
similar postings of technical questions and posting of project pictures? I
looked on line but haven't found anything equivalent.
2. Any recommendations regarding free or very cheap access to newsgroups?

Quick replys are appreciated as I will be cut off soon.

Thanks, I hate to give up on breadth of information available on these
sites.
Bob
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:27:47 -0700, Bob Abbott wrote:

I have read and posted on rec.woodworking and
alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking (and other groups)for about 10 years.
These groups have been very helpful for the hobbiest woodworker to see
other peoples work, to post my work, and to ask questions regarding
techniques, etc. Unfortunately Comcast is now ending it's access to
newsgroups in a week or so, so I am looking for help regarding my
options: 1. Are there any recommendations for woodworking web sites
that provide similar postings of technical questions and posting of
project pictures? I looked on line but haven't found anything
equivalent. 2. Any recommendations regarding free or very cheap access
to newsgroups?

Quick replys are appreciated as I will be cut off soon.

Thanks, I hate to give up on breadth of information available on these
sites.
Bob
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http://www.sawmillcreek.org (note the dot 'org')

the forum hosted by publisher of WoodSmith magazine:
http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php

the publisher of Fine Woodworking (Taunton Press) has a forum I followed
a few years ago, a few like that forum. Not my cup of coffee.
You have to wander around the Fine Woodworking pages, and look for
community and then click on Knots. Registration seems mandatory.

There are others, don't forget to search within MSN groups.

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:27:47 -0700, "Bob Abbott"
wrote:

Any recommendations regarding free or very cheap access to newsgroups?

http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/

Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
USA

Thanks to Dave, Phil and Tom. These plus the info from the other threads
should get me set again. Bob

Mentioned in another post; not a "newsgroup" per se, but a web based
moderated forum you access through your web browser. No special
newsreader software necessary.

www.sawmillcreek.org

It's moderated so you don't get all the political raving or the ad
hominem attacks that seem to be all some folks want or know how to do.
There are a few rules that you have to respect (eschew political rants
and raves is one) to retain membership, but unless you are addicted to
posting ravings such a mentioned above, they are not a heavy burden
and make for a congenial environment. A "family" place, the infantile
"You stupid ****" behavior isn't tolerated.

Guests can read messages, but registration and membership is required
to post messages. There are two levels of membership. "Member" is free
and allows reading and posting to all the public forums. "Contributor"
requires a small annual contribution and opens access to a couple of
"contributor-only" forums along with a few other "contributor-only"
options. The hosting organization suggest an annual contribution of
$6.00.

If you want to read about woodworking related topics without having to
wade through off-topic politics, trolling, wris****ch advertisements,
pornography, .etc, I can recommend Sawmill Creek.

Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
USA

Thanks Tom,
I think Phil also mentioned this. I checked it out and it seems to have
some good stuff.
Bob
"Tom Veatch" wrote in message
...
Mentioned in another post; not a "newsgroup" per se, but a web based
moderated forum you access through your web browser. No special
newsreader software necessary.

www.sawmillcreek.org

It's moderated so you don't get all the political raving or the ad
hominem attacks that seem to be all some folks want or know how to do.
There are a few rules that you have to respect (eschew political rants
and raves is one) to retain membership, but unless you are addicted to
posting ravings such a mentioned above, they are not a heavy burden
and make for a congenial environment. A "family" place, the infantile
"You stupid ****" behavior isn't tolerated.

Guests can read messages, but registration and membership is required
to post messages. There are two levels of membership. "Member" is free
and allows reading and posting to all the public forums. "Contributor"
requires a small annual contribution and opens access to a couple of
"contributor-only" forums along with a few other "contributor-only"
options. The hosting organization suggest an annual contribution of
$6.00.

If you want to read about woodworking related topics without having to
wade through off-topic politics, trolling, wris****ch advertisements,
pornography, .etc, I can recommend Sawmill Creek.

Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS
USA

On Oct 17, 4:27*pm, "Bob Abbott" wrote:
I have read and posted on rec.woodworking and
alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking (and other groups)for about 10 years.
These groups have been very helpful for the hobbiest woodworker to see other
peoples work, to post my work, and to ask questions regarding techniques,
etc. *Unfortunately Comcast is now ending it's access to newsgroups in a
week or so, so I am looking for help regarding my options:
1. Are there any recommendations for *woodworking web sites that provide
similar postings of technical questions and posting of project pictures? I
looked on line but haven't found anything equivalent.
2. Any recommendations regarding free or very cheap access to newsgroups?

Quick replys are appreciated as I will be cut off soon.

Thanks, I hate to give up on breadth of information available on these
sites.
Bob
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A relatively new site (couple of years) is LumberJocks. Members
(free) can post blogs, discussions, post pics, authur tool tests, etc.

"Bob Abbott" wrote in message
. ..
I have read and posted on rec.woodworking and
alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking (and other groups)for about 10 years.
These groups have been very helpful for the hobbiest woodworker to see
other peoples work, to post my work, and to ask questions regarding
techniques, etc. Unfortunately Comcast is now ending it's access to
newsgroups in a week or so, so I am looking for help regarding my options:
1. Are there any recommendations for woodworking web sites that provide
similar postings of technical questions and posting of project pictures? I
looked on line but haven't found anything equivalent.
2. Any recommendations regarding free or very cheap access to newsgroups?

Quick replys are appreciated as I will be cut off soon.


There have been several threads on this very topic over the past few weeks.
Rather than start a new thread asking exactly the same question that has
been asked and answered in these threads, why not just look at what is
already in the active threads?

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"Mike Marlow" wrote in
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"Bob Abbott" wrote in message
. ..
I have read and posted on rec.woodworking and
alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking (and other groups)for about 10
years. These groups have been very helpful for the hobbiest woodworker
to see other peoples work, to post my work, and to ask questions
regarding techniques, etc. Unfortunately Comcast is now ending it's
access to newsgroups in a week or so, so I am looking for help
regarding my options:
1. Are there any recommendations for woodworking web sites that
provide similar postings of technical questions and posting of
project pictures? I looked on line but haven't found anything
equivalent. 2. Any recommendations regarding free or very cheap
access to newsgroups?

Quick replys are appreciated as I will be cut off soon.


There have been several threads on this very topic over the past few
weeks. Rather than start a new thread asking exactly the same question
that has been asked and answered in these threads, why not just look
at what is already in the active threads?

That's good advice, but the retention on binary groups may not allow one
to go back very far at all. So, just to start this all up anew, here
would be my recommendation:

For the groups I'm interested in that were dropped by Verizon, I use
astraweb. Specifically, look at news.astraweb.com and search for the
different subscription plans. The one I am using since June is the pay
$10, get 25 GB of downloads (headers not included) until this runs out.
I still have 24 GB in the "bank".

Using Xnews, I can set up as many servers as I like. That includes
Verizon, Astraweb, Microsoft, Motzarella (free non-binary access).


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Han
email address is invalid

"Han" wrote in message
...


That's good advice, but the retention on binary groups may not allow one
to go back very far at all. So, just to start this all up anew, here
would be my recommendation:

Why? He's asking a question about providers, which really has nothing to do
with binary retention. To start this anew only makes yet another thread on
the same thing that is actively being discussed.


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-Mike-

"Mike Marlow" wrote in
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"Han" wrote in message
...


That's good advice, but the retention on binary groups may not allow
one to go back very far at all. So, just to start this all up anew,
here would be my recommendation:

Why? He's asking a question about providers, which really has nothing
to do with binary retention. To start this anew only makes yet
another thread on the same thing that is actively being discussed.

Huh? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought the question was because
Comcast is going to stop offering newsgroups, how the OP could stay "in the
loop". Since this was posted in a binary group with likely low retention,
I just made a short recommendation. OP can take it from there.

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Han
email address is invalid

On 10/19/08 8:31 AMOct 19, "Han" wrote:

"Mike Marlow" wrote in
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"Han" wrote in message
...


That's good advice, but the retention on binary groups may not allow
one to go back very far at all. So, just to start this all up anew,
here would be my recommendation:

Why? He's asking a question about providers, which really has nothing
to do with binary retention. To start this anew only makes yet
another thread on the same thing that is actively being discussed.

Huh? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought the question was because
Comcast is going to stop offering newsgroups, how the OP could stay "in the
loop". Since this was posted in a binary group with likely low retention,
I just made a short recommendation. OP can take it from there.

Check the cross posting. This also went to rec.woodworking, a text-only
group. That is a more appropriate place for this discussion anyway.

In any case, the notion fo retention applies to the news server, not to the
news group. Various providers may have different retention policies for text
versus binary groups, but ti is still a function of the NNTP server
policies.

Neither of these changes the basic point that this has been discussed a
number of times already. If the OP wanted to discuss this in a newsgroup
where it would be clearly on-topic, then he should have used
alt.online-service.comcast .

"Han" wrote in message
...
"Mike Marlow" wrote in
:


"Han" wrote in message
...


That's good advice, but the retention on binary groups may not allow
one to go back very far at all. So, just to start this all up anew,
here would be my recommendation:

Why? He's asking a question about providers, which really has nothing
to do with binary retention. To start this anew only makes yet
another thread on the same thing that is actively being discussed.

Huh? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I thought the question was because
Comcast is going to stop offering newsgroups, how the OP could stay "in
the
loop". Since this was posted in a binary group with likely low retention,
I just made a short recommendation. OP can take it from there.


Argh! I see. I did not notice the post to the binaries group as well as
the regular group. My bad. I thought he was asking about the regular
group. All the same - there have been quite a few discussions on this very
thing over the past couple of months, in a regular manner. All the OP had
to do was read the newsgroup and he'd have found his answer, rather than
starting a new thread.

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try teranews.com for about $4 you can get free account(4 sign up fee that's
all ever) that gives you 50mgs a month download if your only into binaries
that's all you will ever need.


len

Leonard Shapiro wrote:

try teranews.com for about $4 you can get free account(4 sign up fee that's
all ever) that gives you 50mgs a month download if your only into binaries
that's all you will ever need.

Teranews allows the user to download 50megs a day.



len

@. wrote in
anews.com:

Leonard Shapiro wrote:

try teranews.com for about $4 you can get free account(4 sign up fee
that's all ever) that gives you 50mgs a month download if your only
into binaries that's all you will ever need.

Teranews allows the user to download 50megs a day.



len



I'll let this post be my swan song. My Comcast Service stops tomorrow.
Free TerraNews is fine for reading all groups. The problem is posting.
Sometimes the posting will show up quickly but other times it will
magically appear on the group days later, long after responses to the
thread are relavant. Having used TerraNews before getting Comcast a few
months ago, I am "Alurker" since in order to post effectively with
TerraNews I switch to Google Groups to post even though reading
unfiltered threads on Google is too painful. So tomorrow I'm relagated
to lurking again.

Jerry

A Lurker wrote in news:Xns9B419F3E638B8aLurker@
216.196.97.136:

@. wrote in
anews.com:

Leonard Shapiro wrote:

try teranews.com for about $4 you can get free account(4 sign up fee
that's all ever) that gives you 50mgs a month download if your only
into binaries that's all you will ever need.

Teranews allows the user to download 50megs a day.



len



I'll let this post be my swan song. My Comcast Service stops tomorrow.
Free TerraNews is fine for reading all groups. The problem is posting.
Sometimes the posting will show up quickly but other times it will
magically appear on the group days later, long after responses to the
thread are relavant. Having used TerraNews before getting Comcast a few
months ago, I am "Alurker" since in order to post effectively with
TerraNews I switch to Google Groups to post even though reading
unfiltered threads on Google is too painful. So tomorrow I'm relagated
to lurking again.

Jerry

Once again, Motzarella is pretty good for non-binary groups and free.
Astraweb has this nifty $10 contribution account that will let you
download 25 GB, it doesn't expire, so I am still using it now. I paid in
June and still have a bout 24GB left to spend. Other subscriptinos
available too. Check it out. http://news.astraweb.com/

Satisfied user ...


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Han
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A Lurker wrote:

I'll let this post be my swan song. My Comcast Service stops tomorrow.

I've been using Motzarella for my text groups but today is the 25th and
comcast still has not notified me they are dropping newsgroups? I'm
posting this via comcast so if you are reading it, then comcast is still
as of 10:00 a.m 0n 10/25/2007 still carrying newsgroups, and binary ones
as well.

Perhaps today is the last day? Still, I wonder why they haven't
notified me yet?

I might add that Motzarella has worked flawlessly for me so far for text
stuff and there has been no discernible difference from Giganews and
Motzarella.
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Jack
Using FREE News Server: http://Motzarella.org
http://jbstein.com

I also lost usenet access from Time Warner Roadrunner several months ago.

Have been happy with Forte. http://www.forteinc.com/apn/ Agent Premium
Newsgroups.

Just $2.95 for 12gig/month. More than sufficient for me.

Jack Stein wrote:
A Lurker wrote:

I'll let this post be my swan song. My Comcast Service stops tomorrow.

I've been using Motzarella for my text groups but today is the 25th and
comcast still has not notified me they are dropping newsgroups? I'm
posting this via comcast so if you are reading it, then comcast is still
as of 10:00 a.m 0n 10/25/2007 still carrying newsgroups, and binary ones
as well.

Perhaps today is the last day? Still, I wonder why they haven't
notified me yet?

I might add that Motzarella has worked flawlessly for me so far for text
stuff and there has been no discernible difference from Giganews and
Motzarella.
I use http://www.news.astraweb.com/ and have had no problems. The prices seem fair.

Chris