Howdy gang

Hi, Ed

What sort of electric motor is that? Probably a permanent magnet, brushless variety I'm guessing... \ \ \mike

Here are some other news servers. Some free, some paid.

"The List"...

Free and very cheap Usenet/News Servers (note that free servers may experience occasional outages and/or missed posts):

[Free] [Free, Germany based, very good spam filtering] [Free, daily postings limited to 25] [Free, Google Groups filtered] [Free, Germany based] [Free, Denmark based, may lack some groups] [Free, Germany based, may lack some groups] [Free, Germany based, may lack some groups] [Free, web-based; posts are relayed] [Free with fee-based options, may lack some groups] [Free with fee-based options, Germany based]

[One time setup charge, carry some binary groups] [One time setup charge, fee-based options] [$6 per yr & up, carry some binary groups] [5 Euros ($7) per yr, Germany based] [$10 per yr] [10 Euros ($14) per yr, Germany based, very good spam filtering]

Metered/"pay by download" servers (preferred by some for economy, binary access):

Popular paid servers:

Reviews & info on paid servers:

NO monthly fees, none. You buy a block of data, like this:

2 GB $ 2.00 5 GB $ 3.00 10 GB $ 5.00

has a one-time $3.95 setup fee, and includes binaries.

There is still some decent activity on rec.crafts.metalworking though far too much of it has drifted to Gunner type politics, gun rants, etc. There is very little actual good old fashioned ask and help posts that made Usenet so unique and fun back when. sad