Capt Lou wrote:
Just received word from AOL that all of their newsgroups are ending. It was
nice knowing all of you and reading your postings, although there were way too
many off topic ones. If you want to talk about boating, or have an interesting
sea story or fish tale to tell, call me on the radio. You can listen live on
www.959watd.com or anytime during the week. (The blizzard knocked us off last
week). You can also listen during the week at www.massbayboating.com.

Farewell,
Capt Lou

"Listen to 'Nautical Talk Radio' with Captain Lou on the web by clicking
NAUTICAL NEWS at www.959watd.com. If you are in Boston or Cape Cod set your
radio dial to 95.9FM and tune in the live broadcast on Sunday afternoons
between 4 - 5.

Hmmm I'm no nerd & don';t know anything about AOL but I can't see why
you don't just use a different news server??? There are lots of free ones.

Assuming you want to stay with AOL as your isp; then just use any of
the totally free to download news readers, mozilla is a good web browser
with an email & news client thrown in, they even have easy to use &
effective spam controls (hmm something you mightn't like, Capt Lou:-))
Or you can use or not use firefox as the browser & thunderbird for your
mail & newsgroups, again both are OK.

As for the news server there are many totally free ones which will work
for you, I've been using the Berlin Uni one for ages & never had a
problem. These days it's called individual news.

Anyway just trying to stop an actual boating contributor from going,
I'm sure there are many here who will help you set it up if you ask,
after all it's closer to on topic than most of the other stuff:-)

K