On Feb 18, 8:42 pm, Denny Wheeler
> wrote:

> Get a 'Basic Basic' one year account at Newsguy--$39.95 for one year
> is damn' good. And that includes some other goodies like webspace,
> carryover of unused bandwidth, etc. And good spam-filtering with
> SpamHippo.

SNIP of good info

Thanks, Denny. I have been alerted to newsguy before by happy
customers. I guess it just irks me to have to pay for something that
is supposed to be part of my ISP package. And perhaps if I could get
someone I could understand that knew what I was trying to do at ATT it
could still do it.

I used Dejanews (jeez... remember them?) as my newsgroup access point
for years, then they had some transitional issues. Then I used to use
AOL's newsgroup service when I had them many years ago, and that was
one of the few things they got right.

But then AOL's access went away. I had known for sometime that
Dejanews had been acquired by Google and that they had retained their
archives. So I tried using them as a portal, and it works great.
There is almost never any downtime, they keep the archives for years,
the archives are easily and quickly searched through Google, and it is
free.

I don't really need binaries, although I admit from time to time it
would be nice to access the furniture and woodworking binaries group
to see what is going on with some of the projects.

I'll tuck that information in your post away for future reference.
You never know....

Robert
I started using google groups after they bought dejanews about 100
years ago. Then I quit.