Re: How can I eliminat the captcha?

On Mon, 11 May 2009 11:12:59 +0000, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

On Mon, 11 May 2009 05:44:46 -0400, Bill Putney wrote:

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
On Sun, 10 May 2009 08:52:01 -0700, Pete E. Kruzer wrote:

A captcha is a a squiggly string of letters that might pop up in your
browser. You are asked to copy them to prove that you aren't a
virus.

They just recently started appearing in all my Google groups. A real
pain in the ass.
Anyone know how to eliminate them?

I am using the Safari browser with Comcast.

Use a real newsreader. You will need a newsgroup server because
Comcast no longer provides one. I use the news.individual.net, it
costs 10 Euros per yer. They do an a very good job of filtering out
SPAM, I noticed a huge improvement when I switched back to them after
Comcast dropped news.

http://www.individual.net/

I also have been using individual.net for 3 or 4 years now - on the
recommendation of someone here - possibly the General.

It is really inexpensive like he said, and message retention is several
months - I just checked, and can read messages back to Feb 2, and the
reliability is extremely good. I tried a couple of the most highly
recommended free servers several times and found them awful as far as
uptime and reliability.

The only inconvenience with individual.net is that you have pay either
with a direct bank draft or thru some European equivalent of PayPal -
a little bit of a hassle to set up an account just for a once-a-year
transaction of $10 or $15. But even with that slight inconvenience it
is light years ahead of everything else I tried for reliability and
message retention.

The OP mentioned that he was using Safari which means that he's a Mac
user. I'm a Linux user so I don't have any experience with Mac
newsreaders (I use Pan on Linux) but here is a link that should be
helpful,

http://www.newsreaders.com/mac/clients.html

A newsreader is orders of magnitude better than using Google Groups, the
presentation is much more convenient than is possible on a web page.

I just noticed that there is a version of Pan for OSX, Pan is a great
reader, give it a try.
.

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