posts frequently on usenet

August 13, 2000

Hello All,

I am sorry to see drop the list. He was my favorite poster since

quit. You can see 's posts at:

misc.kids.health

sci.med

misc.health.alternative

misc.health.aids

sci.med.dentistry

I see most of his posts at misc.health.alternative

For those who don't know about usenet (aka, netnews, aka, newsgroups), I

encourage you to find out more. I downloaded a newsreader (Agent or Free Agent

can be found at www.tucows.com), but you can also use the newsreader that comes

with Windows (called Outlook Express, I believe). There are many other

newsreaders available, some are free, but I paid $30 for mine (Agent ver. 1.8),

but that includes a very nice email program that uses the same general format as

Agent newsreader (newsreader and email program are integrated).

I also subscribe to a news service (Newsguy), which costs me around $60 per

year, IIRC. This " budget " version offers about 7000 newsgroups, of which I

currently monitor about 12. There are many other newgroup services such as

" Supernews " , which offer as many as 30,000-40,000 newsgroups, but these can cost

as much as $10 or more per month. And there are newservices that are free

(usually included with your ISP), but some of these do not offer very many

newsgroups.

I spent 3 years reading newsgroups before I ever got on a list. Newgroups take

some time to " learn " , but have a wider audience than most lists. Unfortunately,

I haven't seen on any newsgroups that I am monitoring, but I think he's on

another list (aids dissidents).

Let me know if you want more information on newsgroups (by private email?).

db

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