Flight simulator

"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
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I know most people hate Google Groups

You can count me in that group.

I in fact would recommend Google Groups for Usenet if people have an
ISP problem with access. It's a free reader and for some that's a big
plus.

Hey! Use what you like! For me, it is not just a matter of filtering
the nitwits. Google Groups serves as an easy pathway for spammers. At a
wild guess, 90% of the spam you see on Usenet comes through Google Groups,
and Google could care less. Those of us using NNTP servers and news readers
are spared much of that spam, both from the filtering the NNTP folks do and
from a few obvious filters that anyone can set in their news reader. I
can't help you on the Apple reader, but access to an NNTP server is neither
hard to find nor expensive. Just see my sig file.


Vaughn

.................................................. .......
Nothing personal, but if you are posting through Google Groups I may not
receive
your message. Google refuses to control the flood of spam messages
originating
in their system, so on any given day I may or may not have Google blocked.
Try
a real NNTP server & news reader program and you will never go back. All
you
need is access to an NNTP server (AKA "news server") and a news reader
program.
You probably already have a news reader program in your computer (Hint:
Outlook
Express). Assuming that your Usenet needs are modest, use
http://www.cnntp.org/
and/or, http://news.aioe.org/ and/or http://www.motzarella.org/ and/or
https://www.x-privat.org/index.php for free, and/or
http://www.teranews.com/ for a one-time $3.95 setup fee. Newsguy,
http://www.newsguy.com/ offers a variety of reasonably priced services. If
you
wish to experiment with real Usenet access, they will give you a free 2-day
trial account.
........

"Dudley Henriques" wrote


RCN (my ISP) dropped Usenet some time ago. I liked the venue and hated
to leave it altogether. I know most people hate Google Groups, but I
signed on and have been using this reader now for some time. It's not
too bad really. It's up more than it's down and I'm not a kill file
freak (simply ignore those worth ignoring :-) so the filter issues
that seem to bug everyone else don't seem to be bothering me. I also
don't need a bianary capability; just text so Google is fine for me.
I in fact would recommend Google Groups for Usenet if people have an
ISP problem with access. It's a free reader and for some that's a big
plus.
I'm on a Mac so it's a double good hit for me as good news readers
for Macs are not as plentiful as they are for PC's.
Just throwing this out for general consumption.
Dudley Henriques

Try nntp.aioe.org, for a server. Free, no binaries. No ISP news server needed.
--
Jim in NC

Bob Noel schrieb:
With ISPs dropping newsgroups (...)

Bob - as you know - there is at least a solution for folks using
rec.aviation.*

#m

Morgans wrote:

"Ross" wrote support. ;-)

Yes, but I would then want to ask questions on how sim flying applies
to real life flying, you remember the questions.........just kidding.

And then argue that the answer giver is wrong, and they really are just
an angry young male that lets testosterone rule their reactions and
thoughts, and that all pilots in general do not know the subject as good
as you do.

Oh, for good measure, throw in the fact that the reason you are a
failure in life is because everyone has it out for you, because you are
so smart.

Does that about cover it?

Not that I'm complaining, but it sure is nice he blew out as quickly as
he blew in. I wish the word would get out so we could get back to the
quality and quantity of discussions we used to have. I wonder if it
will ever recover to those days.

AMEN!!! I wasn't sure if they just left or the mail filters were doing
what they were supposed to. I would like for the old group to come back
because I like this format much better than the forums. Takes too much
time. I used to belong to Cessna Pilots Association and I tried to use
that. At least they had a summary that would print each day so I could
at least see what was going on then jump in if I found something of
interest.

--

Regards, Ross
C-172F 180HP
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