Skip Gundlach wrote:
Hi, Larry, and group,

I apologize if we've covered this ground before, but...

If any have been following my quest to have wifi wherever I throw out the
hook, you'll know that I'm pretty close, leaving that part until I get the
other shoreside wrapups done first. However, if I'm surfing a hotspot, I'm
not subscribed to any newsgroups from that location.

Meanwhile, thanks for the very thorough tutorial in the other areas needed
(left below for latecomers)! But...

How do I do newsgroup subscriptions through a foreign (not native to my
machine, therefore, not keyed to a service they provide) ISP, unknown to me
(I wouldn't know the ISP, and even if I did, most likely it would be keyed
to whomever it was that provided the signal, which I would not know)?

Thanks.

L8R

Skip, in dialup hell unless I'm on the boat, which will be some time in the
foreseeable future as rehab continues apace


Your borrowed, radio linked, localized user account, enabled by his
isp, may not offer usenet service, or a connection to the newsgroup
server you may want on usenet, gopher or whatever. But, usegroup
news is still available via other http://www.hypertext.services,
google included, usually in an inferior format, with colour
pictures, ads, etc, at lower speed than even dialup usenet. Once you
have established an internet connection, you may http to your hearts
content, worldwide, unless blocked by a firewall in the radio router
or in his isp. You may find very few unencrypted links open.

Rogers, my isp who is discontinuing usenet, says:

"Customers with a continuing desire to read or post Usenet text
messages or who wish to access Usenet binary groups can subscribe to
third-party Usenet service providers such as Giganews (our supplier
up until the point when we discontinue Usenet) who offer a full
Usenet service on a paid basis: http://www.giganews.com/ "


Or, try
http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.bo...ec54d024283e03

http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.boats.cruising
works for free.

OK?

Terry K



Terry K