Re: Usenet N00b Question

In article <2004071122433216807%gaomeng@gmailcom>, mg39
<> wrote:

> I'm a total usenet newbie and I've just subscribed to the usenet server
> from panic.com (the maker of Unison). Anyways, I was just wondering, is
> there anyway that I can read comp.sys.mac.system without having to pay?
>
> Thanks in advance!

In all liklyhood your ISP probably provides free usenet servers. Then
there is always Google Groups if they don't.

In article <>,
"G.T." <> wrote:

> Chris Moore wrote:
>
> > In article <2004071122433216807%gaomeng@gmailcom>, mg39
> > <> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'm a total usenet newbie and I've just subscribed to the usenet server
> >>from panic.com (the maker of Unison). Anyways, I was just wondering, is
> >>there anyway that I can read comp.sys.mac.system without having to pay?
> >>
> >>Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> > In all liklyhood your ISP probably provides free usenet servers. Then
> > there is always Google Groups if they don't.
>
> And there are other free servers like teranews, check out www.teranews.com.

There's also <http://news.individual.net/>, which is pretty good if you
don't care about access to binaries groups.

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Chris Moore wrote:

> In article <2004071122433216807%gaomeng@gmailcom>, mg39
> <> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm a total usenet newbie and I've just subscribed to the usenet server
>>from panic.com (the maker of Unison). Anyways, I was just wondering, is
>>there anyway that I can read comp.sys.mac.system without having to pay?
>>
>>Thanks in advance!
>
>
> In all liklyhood your ISP probably provides free usenet servers. Then
> there is always Google Groups if they don't.


Forget about google. When it was deja it was fast, google is about 8
hours behind time in posting messages.
Hannah

Hannah wrote:
> Chris Moore wrote:
>
>> In article <2004071122433216807%gaomeng@gmailcom>, mg39
>> <> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm a total usenet newbie and I've just subscribed to the usenet
>>> server from panic.com (the maker of Unison). Anyways, I was just
>>> wondering, is there anyway that I can read comp.sys.mac.system
>>> without having to pay?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>>
>> In all liklyhood your ISP probably provides free usenet servers. Then
>> there is always Google Groups if they don't.
>
>
>
> Forget about google. When it was deja it was fast, google is about 8
> hours behind time in posting messages.

And that sort of time picking up messages you have posted via a normal
news server too.

Paul Sture wrote:

> Hannah wrote:
>
>> Chris Moore wrote:
>>
>>> In article <2004071122433216807%gaomeng@gmailcom>, mg39
>>> <> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm a total usenet newbie and I've just subscribed to the usenet
>>>> server from panic.com (the maker of Unison). Anyways, I was just
>>>> wondering, is there anyway that I can read comp.sys.mac.system
>>>> without having to pay?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In all liklyhood your ISP probably provides free usenet servers. Then
>>> there is always Google Groups if they don't.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Forget about google. When it was deja it was fast, google is about 8
>> hours behind time in posting messages.
>
>
> And that sort of time picking up messages you have posted via a normal
> news server too.
>
In Netscape it is there within minutes if not seconds.

Hannah