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"Subscribing" to topics?

Mizipzor mizipzor at gmail.com
Sun Feb 4 16:12:45 EST 2007 
On Feb 4, 9:55 pm, Toby A Inkster <usenet200... at tobyinkster.co.uk>
wrote:
> You discovered wrong -- Google does not provide a free newsserver. They no
> doubt *have* several newsservers, but don't provide direct access to them
> either free, or for a fee. They only provide a web interface to access the
> contents of their newsservers, with a fraction of the features that a real
> newsreader would.

Hehe, it has all the features I knew existed in a newsreader, except
this "subscribe to topic" thing Im looking for.

> You seem to already have a newsreader -- you're using Opera, which
> includes a fairly good one, hidden away in the Hotlist/Panels/whatever-
> they're-calling-it-today. Other newsreaders I'd recommend are PAN and
> Forte Agent.

Did I mention I use Opera? I do anyway, it was just days ago I made
the switch from Firefox. I found their mail-/newsreader client but
since I didnt know what to type in the server settings of the
newsreader, my search continued.

> So you just need a server. "pubnews.gradwell.net" still seems to exist --
> it's free. Alternatively, "news.individual.net" offers a good service for
> a fairly low yearly cost.

So should "pubnews.gradwell.net" go in both Incoming and Outgoing
server fields?
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