Off Record

Hello All, Still trying to figure out News Groups/

Glad I can say some things off record......
I guess it is great when a prostate cancer survivor can find other items to
get lost in rather than cancer research.

News Groups.
I had a "Bill "e-mail me and of course his e-mail return is not correct. He
sent me a news group server to look up.
http://news.aioe.org/
I tried it and so far no response.....hum
I did e-mail Hughes and they as of yet do not have a news server. (Heather)
I see many free ones but I do like news groups with Binaries or (photo
files)
I have looked at several for photograpy (digital) news groups and they are
wonderful.
I did get Fidotel and it has this Prostate Cancer News Group, and all the
rest are......well.....not so good.
May have to subscribe to one.
Any good news groups to subscribe to for a fair price?
Thanks for my allowance to "go off record"

John Loomis wrote:
> Hello All, Still trying to figure out News Groups/
>
> Glad I can say some things off record......
> I guess it is great when a prostate cancer survivor can find other items to
> get lost in rather than cancer research.
>
> News Groups.
> I had a "Bill "e-mail me and of course his e-mail return is not correct. He
> sent me a news group server to look up.
> http://news.aioe.org/
> I tried it and so far no response.....hum
> I did e-mail Hughes and they as of yet do not have a news server. (Heather)
> I see many free ones but I do like news groups with Binaries or (photo
> files)
> I have looked at several for photograpy (digital) news groups and they are
> wonderful.
> I did get Fidotel and it has this Prostate Cancer News Group, and all the
> rest are......well.....not so good.
> May have to subscribe to one.
> Any good news groups to subscribe to for a fair price?
> Thanks for my allowance to "go off record"
>
>
1. They're all free, every last hundred thousand of them.
2. Every one extracts a price: your privacy. Every time you post to any
newsgroup with your real e-mail address -- as you just did -- that
address is added to hundreds, maybe thousands of spammer lists.
3. What the heck's "off record" mean? You just went ON the record, as
every person on the planet with a computer can read everything you've
ever posted or will post. I'm not I.P. Freely at
fuhgheddaboutit@noway.nohow just for grins; ya gotta be careful what you
say.
4. And you will soon see that this forum is probably the nicest,
sweetest, most on-topic, least argumentative, cleanest unmoderated (as
almost all are) USENET forum on the Internet; keep your hip boots and
welder's glasses handy.
5. And, oh yes . . . pick up a book on Internet and newsgroup security
and privacy. You just walked naked into a dark alley in a third world
slum with a Rolex on your wrist.

I.P.

John Loomis wrote:

> Hello All, Still trying to figure out News Groups/
>
> Glad I can say some things off record......
> I guess it is great when a prostate cancer survivor can find other items to
> get lost in rather than cancer research.
>
> News Groups.
> I had a "Bill "e-mail me and of course his e-mail return is not correct. He
> sent me a news group server to look up.
> http://news.aioe.org/
> I tried it and so far no response.....hum
> I did e-mail Hughes and they as of yet do not have a news server. (Heather)
> I see many free ones but I do like news groups with Binaries or (photo
> files)
> I have looked at several for photograpy (digital) news groups and they are
> wonderful.
> I did get Fidotel and it has this Prostate Cancer News Group, and all the
> rest are......well.....not so good.
> May have to subscribe to one.
> Any good news groups to subscribe to for a fair price?
> Thanks for my allowance to "go off record"

The less you pay, the less you get.
Read this
http://www.canadianalien.com/
j

Hello IP........
Yes, I do have lots to learn, and have had Usenet for many many years.
For one thing, I believe it helped me out with prostate cancer to this very
day! If it were not for stumbling on this news group back in the late
1999's and realizing the many choices I had concerning prostate
cancer/diagnosis/and treatment items........I would really be in a dark
alley with a rolex watch on.
Also going through the ED process I learned many things concerning the
problem and the solutions available.
I have to admit, that with nerve loss, and eye and brain contact, Usenet
helped me regain severe nerve damage.....
I do not have to go into detail, but visuals really help with male ED......
I would compare this to any trauma and nerve function as to exciting the
nerve endings enough to actually make a contact. Kind of like a freyed
wire, and jiggling it until a better connection occurs.......hum....
I do believe that nerve function also helps with incontitnence. (they are
all related in the feelings in that area of concern)

I also discovered Digital Photography workshops, World Wide discussion
groups.....friends, etc.
Anyway, thanks for the advice, and I have been in that alley, with a
flashlight, and a Longs Drugs wrist watch, wearing jeans.......Funny thing
is that I meet similiar folks in that same alley........

I will learn more, and read more concerning news group and the internet.....
John Loomis (my real name)
"I.P. Freely" <fuhgheddaboutit@noway.nohow> wrote in message
news:8AHNh.941$k_4.133@newsfe06.lga...
> John Loomis wrote:
>> Hello All, Still trying to figure out News Groups/
>>
>> Glad I can say some things off record......
>> I guess it is great when a prostate cancer survivor can find other items
>> to get lost in rather than cancer research.
>>
>> News Groups.
>> I had a "Bill "e-mail me and of course his e-mail return is not correct.
>> He sent me a news group server to look up.
>> http://news.aioe.org/
>> I tried it and so far no response.....hum
>> I did e-mail Hughes and they as of yet do not have a news server.
>> (Heather)
>> I see many free ones but I do like news groups with Binaries or (photo
>> files)
>> I have looked at several for photograpy (digital) news groups and they
>> are wonderful.
>> I did get Fidotel and it has this Prostate Cancer News Group, and all the
>> rest are......well.....not so good.
>> May have to subscribe to one.
>> Any good news groups to subscribe to for a fair price?
>> Thanks for my allowance to "go off record"
> 1. They're all free, every last hundred thousand of them.
> 2. Every one extracts a price: your privacy. Every time you post to any
> newsgroup with your real e-mail address -- as you just did -- that address
> is added to hundreds, maybe thousands of spammer lists.
> 3. What the heck's "off record" mean? You just went ON the record, as
> every person on the planet with a computer can read everything you've ever
> posted or will post. I'm not I.P. Freely at fuhgheddaboutit@noway.nohow
> just for grins; ya gotta be careful what you say.
> 4. And you will soon see that this forum is probably the nicest, sweetest,
> most on-topic, least argumentative, cleanest unmoderated (as almost all
> are) USENET forum on the Internet; keep your hip boots and welder's
> glasses handy.
> 5. And, oh yes . . . pick up a book on Internet and newsgroup security and
> privacy. You just walked naked into a dark alley in a third world slum
> with a Rolex on your wrist.
>
> I.P.

"I.P. Freely" <fuhgheddaboutit@noway.nohow> wrote in message
news:8AHNh.941$k_4.133@newsfe06.lga...

> 2. Every one extracts a price: your privacy. Every time you post to any newsgroup with
> your real e-mail address -- as you just did -- that address is added to hundreds, maybe
> thousands of spammer lists.


Here's a suggestion for you I.P.

Get a free email account on Yahoo. Use that to post to Usenet.
Yahoo's spam filters are pretty good and are picking up about 97%
of the spam I receive. Of the 200 or so spams I get each day,
only about five get through, and some days none at all.

I can't recall ever having had a personal email sent to me that
got trashed by the spam filter - though I have had some mailing
list emails trashed, a problem that I can cure by putting the
mailing list "from" address in my Yahoo address book.

I've configured Outlook Express to use my Yahoo address, so the
email I send to this newsgroup and to some other places doesn't
even have the Yahoo ad tagline at the bottom.

It's a constant battle between the spammers and anti-spammers.
As Yahoo gets close to 100% coverage, the spammers come up with a
new trick. Yahoo gets wise to that, then another new trick
appears. But at least you have Yahoo's professionals fighting
the battle for you. You don't have to wade through hundreds of
emails to find the real ones.

I used to use my real ISP email address when I was with Netcom
(which became Mindspring which became Earthlink) and it got
unbearable. Now my ISP address is only given to friends and
co-workers and I use Yahoo for all Internet postings.

Having an address like that is convenient for a lot of reasons.
It allows you to participate in email lists and to give an email
address to online merchants (who may sell it to spammers) without
risking your private address. And of course it allows other
newsgroup members to communicate privately with you.

Some of the other free services like Hotmail or Gmail may also
have good spam filters. I've been pretty satisfied with Yahoo so
I haven't bothered to try them.

So now when people want to communicate with me, they don't have
to just "fuhgheddaboutit."

Alan

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"Many more men die with prostate cancer than of it. Growing old is
invariably fatal. Prostate cancer is only sometimes so."
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Alan Meyer wrote:
>
> Here's a suggestion for you I.P.
>
> Get a free email account on Yahoo.

My last ISP years ago phoned and asked me to change my e-mail address
because my daily spam was overloading their servers, but since switching
to a better ISP I get almost no spam; my ISP apparently does a great job
with all malaware. My primary remaining threat is miscreants with
vendettas obsessed with gleaning my identity and e-mail address. (I
guess it hasn't dawned on them that I have their e-mail addresses and
real identities.)

I.P.