On Jan 2, 3:26 pm, Doc <> wrote:
> On 2 Jan 2007 11:28:51 -0800, "John" <johnnys...@aol.com> wrote:
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> >Can somebody PLEASE help me! I am new to this group and I cannot see
> >any of the post or imaged that anyone is talking about. I click on the
> >topic, and only see text-- I cannot seem to navigate to the orginal
> >post or image. Please advise at johnnys...@aol.com. Thank you!!! -JohnYou are accessing this group, part of usenet, through google. That is
> not a direct access to usenet and that is why you can't see the pics.
>
> Last year aol discontinued their newsgroup access feature (which never
> worked so good to begin with, as you couldn't post pics easily).
>
> To access usenet newsgroups, you need to get yourself a news server
> since aol no longer provides one. Although it is expensive since you
> are starting out you may wish to go with the best, which is giganews
> (put giganews into google or it may just bewww.giganews.com, I'm not
> sure.
>
> You also need software to access the groups. Do not use an internet
> browser or an e-mail program (like outlook) to access the groups
> (although it is possible to do). A specialized news reader is the way
> to go. I explain newsreaders here:http://www.it-smells.com/Explain/news_readers.htm
> (although I wrote that a couple years ago, most of the info there is
> still good and will give you background)
Thank you. I am using FireFox. At least I'm not crazy.
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