On 6 Apr 2004 at 17:13, Richard Ulrich wrote: I downloaded the newsreader Agent, to try that way. But, one problem: setting up Agent, I need to give a direction to a news server NNTP. My ISP (and none other in this country, and last I checked, none on this continent) have a news server. Is there some news servers on the
internet I can use freely? would it be possible to set up Agent to use google groops? Any ideas? Kjetil Halvorsen > On 6 Apr 2004 11:29:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 6 Apr 2004 at 14:08, E. Jacquelin Dietz wrote: > > > > Please do not disable the list! I am using a modem connection > > (not cheap!) so it is impossible for me to take over the list, but > > for modem users email lista are much better than newsgroups! To use > > a newsgroup, I have to be connected when reading, which is not > > reasonable! > > That last statement is not necessarily so. > > A Newsreader such as Agent, which I use, will download > messages at the start, and then go offline. When I want > to post a reply, I can use the option 'later' so that several > messages will be posted at once, if you want to do it that > way. I am doing it that way, today. > > Agent costs $29; it has more capability than the free version > which is called Free Agent -- I don't know whether the > delayed posting is in both, but I think it is. > > -- > Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html > > . > . > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . > ================================================================= . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
