"Eric Babula" wrote in message
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"Bruce Remick" wrote in
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"Eric Babula" wrote in message
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Slor wrote in
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Despite all prevention efforts, "Scurvy Dog"
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teranews.com has a small set up fee but otherwise is free and
it carries binary groups.


Unless you'll be doing a lot of binary grabbing (they have a
50MB/day limit), I would definitely recommend Teranews. I've
been with them since before they started charging the set-up
fee, but I would pay that if I had to. Retention is generally
very good, and reliability is pretty good as well (they have
hiccups here and there, but they're still my pick over any of
the free services I've tried).


Terranews has a setup fee. I started using AIOE, and that's
totally free. No binary groups, tho.

Eric Babula

Sounds like a couple of the freebies mentioned will be worth a
try. Currently, I only follow rcc and one other genealogy group on
Usenet, so my needs are pretty basic. I can certainly live
without binary groups and can't see paying any fees for what I had
been getting for free for a dozen years or more. It's just that
ever present "change" that this old person will now have to get
used to. I have two months.

Thanks, folks.






Bruce -

Like I said, AIOE is working fine for me, and it's free. Which
genealogy group are you following? I used to follow a couple, too:
soc.genealogy, alt.genealogy. Have been away from usenet for a
while. Slowly coming back...maybe.

I think I'll try eternal-september, assuming I can navigate through the
proper newsreader client changes. A neighbor's 10-year-old may be able to
set me up. I can drive a car just fine, but I always rely on someone else
to help set the points and adjust the gonkulator.

I have followed alt.genealogy for a number of years, but it's become pretty
bland lately and I may just ignore it in the future. Otherwise, I will
continue to spend money on various genealogy research subscription sites.