Re: OT: Telus is dropping their news server.

[tourman <robercampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 24, 10:10=A0pm, Frank Kurz <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 24/10/2010 3:18 PM, Jim wrote:
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> > On Oct 24, 12:56 am, Frank Kurz<t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> =A0wrote:
> >> 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> =A0wrote:
> >>>>> 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!
>
> >>>>> I use Teranews.com
>
> >>>>> 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
>
> >>> Yes, but I like to use my mail program to respond to emails as well a=
s
> >>> usenet.
>
> >> I tried Google groups. =A0Royal pain. =A0I'll try Giganews for a coupl=
e of
> >> months and see how that goes.-
>
> > I use Google. It's kinda messy at first, =A0trying 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. =A0I happen to like using Thunderbird.
>
> On a side note... =A0I 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. =A0MS
> 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"). =A0That just plain
> sucks. =A0I use Professional because I write a lot of Access apps. =A0Wou=
ld
> have been nice to upgrade to 2010. =A0Glad I saved everything I did as a
> "2007" file.
>
> Rant mode "off".
>
> --
> Frank Kurzwww.firetechs.net

RHC: Frank, why bother spending any money on new versions of Office
(rhetorically speaking....I'm sure you have your reasons). I'm still
using an old copy of Office 2000 that does everything I could want to
do with this program.  I get severely pissed with programs such as
Quick Books where they keep trying to get you to upgrade to get some
minor upgrade I wouldn't use anyway.

Until recently, I was still using Quick Books 2000 but did decide to
buy the latest version (2010). That one should keep me going for the
next decade at least.....:))