Re: OT comp.soft-sys.stat.spss and other news groups

Posted by Bruce Weaver on Dec 05, 2011; 8:14pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/OT-comp-soft-sys-stat-spss-and-other-news-groups-tp5045279p5049985.html

Hi Art.  I did use Google Groups for quite a while, but was not all that happy with it after the "upgrade".  (The killfile script I was using stopped working, for example.)  So I've gone back to using Thunderbird and the news server from www.newsguy.com.  It's not free, but the cheapest package (which is all you need if you're not downloading binaries) is pretty inexpensive.

Cheers,
Bruce

Art Kendall wrote

When Verizon dropped newsgroups I started using eternal-September.
Today Thunderbird 8.0 kept asking for a password.  I removed the
eternal-September account.
Eternal September does not come up with all the groups such as sci.sat.*
or comp.soft-sys.stat.spss

I know some of the people on this list are also on newsgroups.  How are
people accessing usenet?
Have other who use both usenet and this group had problems lately?

--
Art Kendall
Social Research Conaultants

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