On Feb 8, 4:10*am, Kevin Alfred Strom
wrote:
On 2/7/2011 11:25 PM, Hils wrote:

Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
Okay, thanks. Do aioe.org and x-privat.org and tioat.net have
similar reputations? They seem to be the only easy and free ways
(besides Google Groups, whose interface and censorship I find
intolerable) to get the discussion groups on Usenet these days.

I keep reading about Usenet spam, but I never find it more than a
very minor problem. Perhaps I've been reading the right newsgroups.
The major downside I've found to aioe is that they seem to respond
to reports of unwelcome content by making that group read-only.
Censorship, or the threat of it, is a much more sinister problem
than spam IMO.

Usenet spam used to be more of a problem a few years ago (though
rec.radio.shortwave was never affected too much), but it seems to be
receding -- along with the popularity of Usenet itself.

I didn't know about aioe's censorship, which is troubling. I only
tried them briefly, but their servers were so slow that in the short
term I was never quite sure if my posts were really posted or not
(sometimes they _would_ be posted even when Thunderbird said the
server timed out -- and sometimes not).

With all good wishes,

Kevin, WB4AIO.
-- http://nationalvanguard.org/
http://kevinalfredstrom.com/

KAS,

Usually I run two Windows {Tabs} :
One with Forté Agent in it; and the
'other' with Google Groups* in it.

This allows me to Post via Forté Agent when needed;
and Verify within a Seconds at Google Groups that the
Post made it {posted ok}.

Note : Google Groups is now the Host Repository
for most of what was called the UseNet Archives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#...s_and_DejaNews