Just received word from AOL that all of their newsgroups are ending. It was
nice knowing all of you and reading your postings, although there were way too
many off topic ones. If you want to talk about boating, or have an interesting
sea story or fish tale to tell, call me on the radio. You can listen live on
www.959watd.com or anytime during the week. (The blizzard knocked us off last
week). You can also listen during the week at www.massbayboating.com.

Farewell,
Capt Lou

"Listen to 'Nautical Talk Radio' with Captain Lou on the web by clicking
NAUTICAL NEWS at www.959watd.com. If you are in Boston or Cape Cod set your
radio dial to 95.9FM and tune in the live broadcast on Sunday afternoons
between 4 - 5.

There's a bigger world outside of AOL. Get a new ISP and jump out of the
playpen.

-W

"Capt Lou" wrote in message
...
Just received word from AOL that all of their newsgroups are ending. It
was
nice knowing all of you and reading your postings, although there were way
too
many off topic ones. If you want to talk about boating, or have an
interesting
sea story or fish tale to tell, call me on the radio. You can listen live
on
www.959watd.com or anytime during the week. (The blizzard knocked us off
last
week). You can also listen during the week at www.massbayboating.com.

Farewell,
Capt Lou

"Listen to 'Nautical Talk Radio' with Captain Lou on the web by clicking
NAUTICAL NEWS at www.959watd.com. If you are in Boston or Cape Cod set
your
radio dial to 95.9FM and tune in the live broadcast on Sunday afternoons
between 4 - 5.

Capt Lou wrote:
Just received word from AOL that all of their newsgroups are ending. It was
nice knowing all of you and reading your postings, although there were way too
many off topic ones. If you want to talk about boating, or have an interesting
sea story or fish tale to tell, call me on the radio. You can listen live on
www.959watd.com or anytime during the week. (The blizzard knocked us off last
week). You can also listen during the week at www.massbayboating.com.

Farewell,
Capt Lou

"Listen to 'Nautical Talk Radio' with Captain Lou on the web by clicking
NAUTICAL NEWS at www.959watd.com. If you are in Boston or Cape Cod set your
radio dial to 95.9FM and tune in the live broadcast on Sunday afternoons
between 4 - 5.

Hmmm I'm no nerd & don';t know anything about AOL but I can't see why
you don't just use a different news server??? There are lots of free ones.

Assuming you want to stay with AOL as your isp; then just use any of
the totally free to download news readers, mozilla is a good web browser
with an email & news client thrown in, they even have easy to use &
effective spam controls (hmm something you mightn't like, Capt Lou:-))
Or you can use or not use firefox as the browser & thunderbird for your
mail & newsgroups, again both are OK.

As for the news server there are many totally free ones which will work
for you, I've been using the Berlin Uni one for ages & never had a
problem. These days it's called individual news.

Anyway just trying to stop an actual boating contributor from going,
I'm sure there are many here who will help you set it up if you ask,
after all it's closer to on topic than most of the other stuff:-)

K

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:08:20 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

I agree with Jeff. Get yourself a real ISP if AOL's serious about that.
[I was an early adopter of AOL; I left when I found a full service ISP.

================================================== =====

Absolutely right, AOL is a poor substitute for the real thing. You
may not need to leave them however. There used to be an option in the
AOL logon options where you specify that you want a "Windows Socket"
connection or words to that effect. That would enable you to use AOL
for your EMAIL while actually connecting with something else (like a
high speed cable connection or DSL service). Assuming that you get
that working, you then need an independent newsreader like Free Agent:

http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php

If you are already connecting to AOL with cable or DSL, chance are
that you have everything in place already except for installing a
newsreader.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:08:20 GMT, Jere Lull wrote:

I agree with Jeff. Get yourself a real ISP if AOL's serious about that.
[I was an early adopter of AOL; I left when I found a full service ISP.

================================================== =====

Absolutely right, AOL is a poor substitute for the real thing. You
may not need to leave them however. There used to be an option in the
AOL logon options where you specify that you want a "Windows Socket"
connection or words to that effect. That would enable you to use AOL
for your EMAIL while actually connecting with something else (like a
high speed cable connection or DSL service). Assuming that you get
that working, you then need an independent newsreader like Free Agent:

http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php

If you are already connecting to AOL with cable or DSL, chance are
that you have everything in place already except for installing a
newsreader.

Just dump AOL altogether. If you have an DSL or cable connection you get
e-mail addresses.

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:43:04 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:


Absolutely right, AOL is a poor substitute for the real thing. You
may not need to leave them however. There used to be an option in the
AOL logon options where you specify that you want a "Windows Socket"
connection or words to that effect. That would enable you to use AOL
for your EMAIL while actually connecting with something else (like a
high speed cable connection or DSL service). Assuming that you get
that working, you then need an independent newsreader like Free Agent:

http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php

If you are already connecting to AOL with cable or DSL, chance are
that you have everything in place already except for installing a
newsreader.

Ten years ago when I was doing service calls for an early independent
ISP, we used to call AOL "Assholes On Line", because only the stupid
or the unwilling to learn would get sucked into using it. They also
produced the most ignorant calls to our help desk. We used to say that
AOL wasn't the Internet...it was a discount mall out on the highway
leading away from the Internet.

I see no reason to change my opinion, despite the hundreds of coasters
AOL has sent me over the years.

I use Free Agent, Eudora and Firefox. No Microsoft, no AOL, no spam,
no pop-ups. It's almost as peaceful as sailing.

R.