It's not just me!

Owain wrote in message
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"Deep Freud Moors" wrote
| I often spend time away from my computer at home (travelling around so
much
| and all). Google is pretty awful to use, but is very useful when
travelling.
| If there is an alternative and better web-based news service, I would be
| interested in trying it.

I believe rte is available as a web forum on one of the british ex-pat
websites.

If the problem is that you have a laptop, but your ISP won't allow access
to
their NNTP server unless you are dialled in to them, you could consider
something like clara.net Mail and News, which gives you access to POP3,
NNTP, SMTP and some webspace, from any ISP, for about a tenner a year.
This
might also be useful to AOL customers who don't get SMTP/NNTP.

The problem is largely that most of the places I visit are poor, with
minimal high tech infrastructure, and I rarely stay in one place for more
that a few weeks. I would have to take along a variety of modem cards, and
would need to arrange dial-up access at each port of call. Taking the laptop
is not worth the effort.

The possibility of having it stolen exists too. It is much, much more
convenient to use a web-based version in a net cafe somewhere. Travelling
light makes things MUCH easier in my view.
---
DFM

Honey, lay off the Smirnoff!


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I keep getting the following message when trying to read your posts:

Unable to find thread. Please recheck the URL.

Here's a thread from the google.public.support.general newsgroup:


http://groups.google.com/groups?&thr...ing.google.com

Owain wrote:

If the problem is that you have a laptop, but your ISP won't allow access to
their NNTP server unless you are dialled in to them, you could consider
something like clara.net Mail and News, which gives you access to POP3,
NNTP, SMTP and some webspace, from any ISP, for about a tenner a year.

There are free pop/smtp/nntp services- though I can't think of one that
does all three. For NNTP I'd recommend news.individual.net- invaluable
if you're taking the laptop to other countries.

I'd be interested in a decent WAP portal, because then I could read
newsgroups relatively cheaply while roaming abroad, from the phone, or
very cheaply while travelling around the UK. There is at least one I've
tried, but it's got a terrible interface.

David

--
David Horne- www.davidhorne.co.uk
davidhorne (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk

In article ,
Bert Hyman wrote:

In order to use a "real" newsreader, you have to have access to a "real"
news server, which for some people means paying "real" money :-)

Are those people somehow forbidden from using
http://news.individual.net/, for example?

--
Jon Bell Presbyterian College
Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA

In (Jon Bell)
wrote:

In article ,
Bert Hyman wrote:

In order to use a "real" newsreader, you have to have access to a "real"
news server, which for some people means paying "real" money :-)

Are those people somehow forbidden from using
http://news.individual.net/, for example?

Since you're the second person to bring this up, I'll repeat that for
"some" people, this means paying real money.

Not everyone is in the same situation, or is as bright, as you.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

On 02 Oct 2003 15:30:11 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:

In (Jon Bell)
wrote:

In article ,
Bert Hyman wrote:

In order to use a "real" newsreader, you have to have access to a "real"
news server, which for some people means paying "real" money :-)

Are those people somehow forbidden from using
http://news.individual.net/, for example?

Since you're the second person to bring this up, I'll repeat that for
"some" people, this means paying real money.

Which part of "free" is it that costs money at
http://news.individual.net? As that site says, "Registration and
use of this NetNews service are free of charge. It is a service
operated by the computer center of Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany."

Not everyone is in the same situation, or is as bright, as you.

Ain't hardly nobody as bright as Jon.

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Bert Hyman wrote:
(Jon Bell) wrote:
Are those people somehow forbidden from using
http://news.individual.net/, for example?

Since you're the second person to bring this up, I'll repeat that for
"some" people, this means paying real money.

Which people, and why?

miguel
--
Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu
Site remodeled 10-Sept-2003: Hundreds of new photos, easier navigation.

In (Miguel
Cruz) wrote:

Bert Hyman wrote:
(Jon Bell) wrote:
Are those people somehow forbidden from using
http://news.individual.net/, for example?

Since you're the second person to bring this up, I'll repeat that for
"some" people, this means paying real money.

Which people, and why?

My goodness! Aren't you the obsessive one!


--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN

Bert Hyman wrote:
(Miguel Cruz) wrote:
Bert Hyman wrote:
(Jon Bell) wrote:
Are those people somehow forbidden from using
http://news.individual.net/, for example?

Since you're the second person to bring this up, I'll repeat that for
"some" people, this means paying real money.

Which people, and why?

My goodness! Aren't you the obsessive one!

Not terribly obsessive; what you're seeing here is only my third post on the
subject.

I admit I am somewhat curious as to why you'd keep repeating something that
is patently and demonstrably untrue. When I quit my job and apply for a
grant to fly to Minnesota to study you, THEN you can call me obsessive.

miguel
--
Hit The Road! Photos and tales from around the world: http://travel.u.nu
Site remodeled 10-Sept-2003: Hundreds of new photos, easier navigation.