Better way to post & reply than from Google?

OK, it seems posting from Google sucks. I made a post via Goggle
before my lunch run. Two hours later I see it via another forum reader
that I like but can't post from. There are also responses to my post
which I can see there and would LIKE to respond to.

But no, here it is almost six hours later, and my original post hasn't
even shown up on Google yet. I have no way to reply.

Is there a better free-ware way to post to these forums, without such
terrible delays?

On 27 Jan 2004 14:46:47 -0800, (vlcd_hell) wrote:

Is there a better free-ware way to post to these forums, without such
terrible delays?

www.forteinc.com It's free and then find several free newsservers.

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On 27 Jan 2004 14:46:47 -0800, (vlcd_hell) wrote:


Is there a better free-ware way to post to these forums, without such
terrible delays?


Ask your ISP if they have a news server. Mine had one and then got rid
of it. I went two years with google. I had to drop most of my
newsgroups since i just couldn't keep up.

After a year of nagging, my ISP got a news server, so I am back to
Free Agent which is wonderful.


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vlcd_hell wrote:

Is there a better free-ware way to post to these forums, without such
terrible delays?

Most ISPs have a news server, although a great deal of them don't know
how to run one properly, and miss a good percentage of posts.

If you're only interested in text groups, I recommend that you create
an account with the free German server at
http://news.individual.net

If you want mostly text groups, with occasional binaries, I highly
recommend a Basic account with Newsguy, $40 for a whole year. You can
sign up for a 2-day free trial at
http://www.newsguy.com/freetrial.htm

You can set up either of these with Windows newsreaders such as FreeAgent
or Gravity (or Outlook Express or Netscape, although neither is as well
featured, not being dedicated news applications).

Newsguy also has a web-based reader/poster, but I've never used it.

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jamie )

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