Re: Accessing Usenet

From: Van Jacques (calccurve-test23_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: 25 Aug 2004 13:25:24 -0700

What is top-posting. That's a new term for me.

I wish my only problem was having to edit my posts.

My complaint (I use a MAC), is that google's new formatting
improvements tend to garble messages for me--really makes sci.math
almost unreadable. I am going to have to go thru the
trouble of getting the news from a server and using a newsreader,
I guess. I thought google would help, rather than hinder use of
Usenet--and they have till this new formatting.

I only read sci.math and a couple others---still don't know
what to try for alternate usenet access. I posted in
alt.freeservers for I have some suggestions, which I haven't got
around to yet.

Kewlbie wrote:
> x-no-archive: yes
> davidoff404 wrote: news:cclu9p$99q$1@kermit.esat.net
>
> > People tend to use news servers that comes with their ISP. By the
way,
> > you may be using http://groups.google.com to access Usenet. Don't 

--
> > its's rubbish. Instead, try out google's beta groups service:
> >
> > http://groups-beta.google.com
>
> Groups 2 Beta is even worse. To reply without top-posting you have to
click
> "Preview", then "Edit Message".

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