From: dave-ng@nospam.tld   
      
   On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:52:57 -0800, anoneds@netscape.net wrote:   
      
   > DaveG wrote:   
   >    
   >> I've even seen a number of people recently applying filters on   
   >> "User-Agent:    G2/0.2" thus blocking all google posts from their reader.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I really hope this isn't the case. There are those of us, I included,   
   > that have been using usenet for many years who do not have an ISP with   
   > a news server.   
      
   I've seen a number commenting no doing this now.  In at least noe of the   
   groups I read I'm considering it myself.  I may lose contact with a small   
   number useful contributers such as yourself (not this group I hasten to   
   add ) but that small loss would be offset by the elimination of some   
   ever morphing trolls.   
      
   > I just recently switched to an ISP who mentioned their news server on   
   > their site, but when I asked their tech support what the name of the   
   > news server was, I was told they disconnected it a couple of years back   
   > because it wasn't used very much.   
   >   
   > How unfortunate! Now I am looking for another ISP (I have one in   
   > mind... know anything about ? Not just because   
   > of newsgroups (which is one reason I left Netzero, another being slow   
   > connections). But because emails to my new technical support never get   
   > answered (dialup4less is my current ISP, 3 month trial period, and   
   > their performance is pretty dismal   
      
   Have you tried this one? http://news.individual.net/  Near as dammit free   
   and very good.   
      
   --   
   Dave   
   Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)