Re: posts frequently on usenet

[Guest guest]

Dave - I'd love more info on newsgroups, please. My email is

brofu@... -Gretchen

On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:12:04 -0500 Dave Berntson <dbern@...>

writes:

> 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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