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"-SD-" > wrote:

> cybercat wrote:
> > "-SD-" > wrote
> > >
> > >
> > > Some of us have no option other than Google.
> >
> > Nope. You have plenty of options.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Well that was very helpful..."Nope. You have plenty of options." I
> trust all of those options are available to people living in Honduras,
> correct? You didn't seem to suggest any.
>
> I happen to live in an area in which PayPal allow not accounts to be
> created and from which most US based businesses will not accept credit
> card payments. That effectively shuts down any way to pay for setup
> fees.
>
> Every alternative that has been recommended to me requires an ISP to
> provide an email address as well as STMP and POP3 information. My ISP
> does NOT provide any of those. Without that information, I've yet to
> find USENET access through anyone other than Google. I'd like to see
> the alternatives that you say exist.


I think that it would be a service to a number of people to provide this
info. I am very happy with my setup (a Mac running MT-NewsWatcher
connecting to a pretty nice newserver run by my full service ISP), so
I'm not going to do any research.

One hint, which may be totally useless. Will any of the free newservers
accept your Yahoo Email? I use a real Email address in my posts, but
obviously many people don't. As far as SMTP, if you can't provide one,
your local newsclient won't be able to send mail. Maybe this isn't a
big deal, though.

I wish you the best of luck, and enjoy reading your posts. The fact
that you use googlegroups doesn't bother *me* at all, I'm just glad that
I'm not forced to use it. I use Google to look up old posts (I think I
go back to 1991 on this group).

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Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA