While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Space Cowboy rolled
initiative and posted the following:

> I appreciate the suggestion, really. As I said other than the
> rapid turnaround and UFT8 posts limitations there is no problem
> with Google.

You're welcome. You might consider giving it a shot just to see what it's like, even
if you never post. After all, it's free.

(Why am I feeling like a pusher trying to hook his next customer?)

> I complain about the missing newgroups server because it is
> like selling a car without wheels.

I would, too. I get my DSL through deal with the university, so all of my mail
servers are still my student account, but my DSL access is through someone else -
with no server access. This was why I went to the free German server - I wanted my
usenet groups.

> Until the recent posts I thought
> a free newsgroup server was an urban legend.

Sometimes the legends are real!

> I'm very big on
> using Usenet and people leaving their opinions to be digested by
> future prosterity.

So what's your opinion on X-No-Archive?

> I'll use the Google backdoor to the group and let somebody else
> use the server bandwidth who needs it more than me.

OOOOOH! Generosity and consideration for others! I thought those were outlawed in
Usenetland.

> I know what
> you're saying and I'm not dissing you for any reason at all, in
> this post sofar anyway ;-).

Yeah, I was suprprised by that myself.

--
Derek

There comes a time when every team must learn to make individual sacrifices.