Margaret Olson wrote:
At 01:58 PM 2/8/2005, you wrote:
"James W Anderson" <jander7@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1107879762.720010.104590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
Got an email regarding this problem from the 'Dear Myrtle' list,
forwarded to one I was on, where apparently AOL is blocking access
to
Rootsweb lists and other mailing lists, not just the genealogy ones.
Dear Myrtle has it ALL wrong. She read "newsgroups" and
automatically
assumed "mailing lists". AOL is shutting newsgroups access. Except
for
the RootsWeb mailing lists (fewer than 30 of them) which mirror these
newsgroups there is no relationship at all. Those mailing lists will
see
no changes.
Myrt has been corrected by many people. I assume she will post an
apology
for her wild attempts to get people to leave AOL.
Margaret
And you don't even have to use a newsreader to read and post to the
newsgroup directly.
Google Groups now posts messages to the groups and gatewayed mailing
lists almost immediately, and you can read them in Google Groups and
search them as well. It's just like the old Deja News, Finally!
You can post to any and all newsgroups, not just genealogy groups, via
Google Groups. Google Groups is also searchable, and for the most
part, spam-free as well, a few sneak by, but almost all of it is gone
now.
You can read Google Groups from AOL. No need to even leave AOL to read
newsgroups now.
If you are reading the mailing list version of alt.genealogy for
example, you can go to the Google Groups version via this link.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.genealogyTo read any other Usenet group, simply type its name in the place of
'alt.genealogy'.
I expect the 'groups-beta' part to change in the future, once they get
past the beta stage of it.