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11-20-2005, 10:15 PM
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Looking For A Free Way To Surf Newsgroups
Can someone point me to somewhere I can surf newsgroups for free? I remember they used to be kickass back when I first got the internet around '95 but it's been many years since I last checked some out.
Also, does anyone know of any good newsgroups to check out? 
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11-20-2005, 10:19 PM
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Re: Looking For A Free Way To Surf Newsgroups
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They're not free anymore? [/ QUOTE ] That seems impossible; maybe it's just that his ISP doesn't offer news service, and so he doesn't have a server to log into. I'm pretty ignorant about such things, so grain of salt, etc.
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11-20-2005, 10:19 PM
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Re: Looking For A Free Way To Surf Newsgroups
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They're not free anymore? Are you a university student? [/ QUOTE ] Last time I went looking a couple months ago, I only came up with pay services that would clean up the junk and just leave the substance. No, I'm not a university student.
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11-20-2005, 10:29 PM
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Re: Looking For A Free Way To Surf Newsgroups
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[ QUOTE ] They're not free anymore? Are you a university student? [/ QUOTE ] Last time I went looking a couple months ago, I only came up with pay services that would clean up the junk and just leave the substance. No, I'm not a university student. [/ QUOTE ] I would first try groups.google.com. If that doesn't work (you might need a gmail account) or you want to be able to download the posts for offline reading I would check with your Internet provider to see if they have a server. As gumpzilla said, it seems unfathomable that they are not free anymore. If you were a university student I'm 100% certain that you could access them freely.
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11-20-2005, 10:30 PM
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11-20-2005, 10:31 PM
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Re: Looking For A Free Way To Surf Newsgroups
Free Agent is an excellent newsreader, but unless they've started providing services that I'm not aware of, not a goto place for binary newsgroups (which is what I assume the original poster was after.) groups.google.com will work well for most text newsgroups, as jason_t suggested.
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11-20-2005, 10:32 PM
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Re: Looking For A Free Way To Surf Newsgroups
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If you were a university student I'm 100% certain that you could access them freely. [/ QUOTE ] my school did away with their usenet server at some point between when our computer help files were written and when i matriculated.
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11-20-2005, 10:33 PM
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Re: Looking For A Free Way To Surf Newsgroups
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[ QUOTE ] If you were a university student I'm 100% certain that you could access them freely. [/ QUOTE ] my school did away with their usenet server at some point between when our computer help files were written and when i matriculated. [/ QUOTE ] Unreal. Information wants to be free!
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