lanky <lanky@dave.com> wrote in news:q9BYz.4448$Cx7.420@fx11.iad:
> In reply to "Condom@Comdex.org" who wrote the following:
>
>> On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 11:49:10 -0600, Fred Fishbin
>> <FredFishbin@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> As some of you know, I've been around Usenet for a while now, it used
> to be called newsgroups and I subscribed when it was called Bulletin
> Boards. Individuals all over the world running usenet-type file
> exchanges and TRUE news articles from their spare rooms..... those
> were the days. Modems running at 2400 bits/sec, so slow you could see
> individual letters as they arrived, almost :)
>
> Anyway, I only said that so you can judge what I say now. Which is - I
> used to subscribe to abook.ws before Buck took it onto Usenet. It used
> to be an internet based audiobook site. And I can say I have never in
> all these years heard anything detrimental about abook.ws
> Plenty of beefs about iddley twiddley "this is not right" and so on
> but Buck, mostly unaided at first, got it up and running smoothly and
> SAFELY. There is no aspect of this site which is unsafe and the things
> most people don't like about the newsgroup (audiobook club) are the
> safety and anonimity aspects which obfuscate (nice word that) the
> exact title and poster names etc.
>
> Buck, fairly recently, added another layer of security to limit the
> number of non-contributors entering the site. He asked for
> recommendation as a prelim to being allowed in and asked for your
> email address etc to confirm you are real, as the vast majority of any
> such sites do. If you can't make up a throwaway email addy for this
> purpose, you shouldn't be wandering around the internet on your own :)
>
> All I really have to say is that I think that abook.ws is perfectly
> safe and the contrary opinions are unjustified.
>
> lanky
Amen to your comments, lanky.
(you must have been rich. I could only afford a 300 baud modem for my
Amiga 1000!).
Oh... and thanks for your posts!
Cheers,
Chev.
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