Re: How to reduce your RASFF habit in one easy step

In message <e3dk5a$aof$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Nancy Lebovitz <nancyl@xxxxxxxxx> writes
In article <Wtq6g.72806$H71.8906@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ghod <ghod@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e3blfk$d6s$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: Nels E. Satterlund <Nels.E.Satterlund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: > No not un-subscribe like Kip, just have your work news feed go to
: > not getting 99.9% of the posts.
:
: You could get a shell account. From work during lunch hour I can
: telnet into it to read rasff. From home, I dial up, and am right
: where I left off on reading rasff.

People still use dialup? Sadly (or maybe not), UI dropped usenet a
while ago...but on the other hand, nothing's stopping me from the news
server associated with my DSL account.

I have dialup. I'm thinking about broadband, but it looks as though
I'll need to do something drastic (like get Linux on a CD) if what
I'm told about the inadequacy of Windows 98 for broadband is correct.


I think that a lot of the Windows 98 broadband problems are actually USB and serial problems. Windows 98 is pretty robust if your connection comes in via a network card, either via a router as others have said, or a direct connection between the PC and a modem with a network socket if you're only connecting one PC. But if you do that you REALLY need a good software firewall.
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