Re: OT: Telus is dropping their news server.

[Frank Kurz <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/10/2010 3:18 PM, Jim wrote:
> On Oct 24, 12:56 am, Frank Kurz<t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> On 23/10/2010 5:29 PM, Jim Rojas wrote:
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>>> nick markowitz wrote:
>>>> On Oct 23, 2:53 pm, Jim Rojas<jro...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>> Frank Kurz wrote:
>>>>>> I haven't had access to the group for about fifteen days now. This
>>>>>> morning I get a message that states that Telus is dropping their
>>>>>> service
>>>>>> from October 1. Some more notification would have been nice!
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>>>>> I use Teranews.com
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>>>>> Jim Rojas
>>>>> Technical Manuals Online!http://www.tech-man.com
>>>>> 8002 Cornwall Lane
>>>>> Tampa, FL 33615-4604
>>>>> 813-884-6335
>>
>>>> You can get to this group thru Google news groups as well
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>>> Yes, but I like to use my mail program to respond to emails as well as
>>> usenet.
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>> I tried Google groups.  Royal pain.  I'll try Giganews for a couple of
>> months and see how that goes.-
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> I use Google. It's kinda messy at first,  trying to find this group,
> but once I did, I just bookmarked the sign-in page and now it just
> takes a couple of second to sign on. They don't require any personal
> info and I can keep a low profile and this is all I use it for anyway.
> Works for me.


I prefer using a news reader.  I happen to like using Thunderbird.

On a side note...  I figure as an official "beta tester" for Microsoft
2010 Office, I'd receive a "thank you" in the form of either a free
upgrade to the full version or a deeply discounted price to do so.  MS
isn't even offering an "upgrade" version (except to those individuals
that bought Office 2007 as part of a new computer purchase - and then
you have to activate it in a very narrow "window").  That just plain
sucks.  I use Professional because I write a lot of Access apps.  Would
have been nice to upgrade to 2010.  Glad I saved everything I did as a
"2007" file.

Rant mode "off".



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Frank Kurz
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