Date: Sat, 19 Nov 1994 18:35:52 -0800 From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
I'm afraid of losing my full feed along with my account when I finish my masters. I don't want to go for a PhD just so I can keep browsing the alt groups.
Better yet, find a private service provider that will let you use their newsserver. How do you inted to access the newsserver without an account, anyway?
Well, like I said, it's the alt groups that I'm worried about. I have an excellent net connection at work, being employed by a subsidiary of Rockwell, but our news feed is politically correct. I have access to two accounts with full feeds, but one is not a shell account, and the other one is the school account which goes away in a another year (depending on how long I can drag out the degree), unless I start taking post-grad classes. So, my hope is that I can use gnus to talk to some other newsserver than the censored local one. I will try some of the places that were posted. As far as the private newsserver provider goes, I'd go for it (when the time comes), if I could buy just access to Usenet for a discount. For that matter, maybe a couple of years from now the Republicans will have figured out a way to shut down the alt groups. ;-) I'm better off if I keep taking classes, anyway. Don't know about the rest of the folks on this list, but I don't feel like what I know about computers today will carry me through retirement. tw