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Old April 5th 08, 12:41 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Will Hand Will Hand is offline
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"Mike Tullett" wrote in message
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On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:15:37 GMT, Steve Loft wrote in
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David Mitchell wrote:
My news.individual.net subscription has run out!
Do many here access the group on Google??
How can I add a sig?


Don't do it, David! This is Usenet, not Google!

You can get a 'free for life' news account from Teranews
http://www.teranews.com/ but there's a one-off setup charge of $3.95
(about two quid). Seems to work pretty well, I have an account with them
which I've used from time to time.


Very much agree with you. NIN is only 10 euros a year as well and is very
reliable. Already, I have killfiled Google posters in other ngs because

of
all the spam that Google passses on. It won't take much more before I kf
Google in this ng.



Also they post in a format that Outlook Express cannot recognise to indent
correctly, which is a real pain. Google is useful as a News archive and in
an emergency when a proper newsreader is unavailable, but is more akin to a
web discussion group than Usenet.

Will
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