My verizon service is ending access to this newsgroup (rumered for somtime now). Does anyone know of a new service/location for this stuff?
Newsgroup Ending
Sep 01, 2009
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I hear names go by -- the one that sticks is "supernews".
Have you tried a web search? "USENET server" or "USENET service provider" may get you some hits.
There's Google Groups, but if you go there you just become one with the spam problem.
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:45:03 -0500, Tim Wescott wrote in :
I subscribe through Supernews (now owned and operated by Giganews).
I also have an Astraweb account ($10 for 25 gigabytes, no time limit--goes a long way with text-only newsgroups!).
This page lists some free news servers as well as lots and lots of pay-for-play:
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I try to keep the page up to date, but there is no guarantee that all of the links work.
Marty
There are plenty of independent news carriers, some of them are even free.
I've been using
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since they were previously known as
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The service has been excellent. The only caveat is they don't carry binary groups, but for those of us who are discussion-group users it works perfectly, and costs nothing....
Cheers
The following brief list of free text news servers is in alphabetical order without editorial comment. It's a short list. Check out the servers and decide for yourself which one is best for you. No one knows what works for you better than you do.
AIOE
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Albasani
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CNNTP
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ETT
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Eternal September
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Solani
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Tornevall
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Usenet4all
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(blocks all posts from Google)
X-Privat
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SunSITE.dk
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Mixmin nntp://news.mixmin.net Mixmin nntps://news.mixmin.net
A resourceful site with more information about free NNTP servers:
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On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 00:16:30 +0000 (UTC), Black Dragon wrote in :
Nice list. I've cut it into the wiki:
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Marty
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Excellent.
It was gleaned from alt.free.newsservers. Can't really recommend that group for reading to casual users though, it's usually full of k0okery and requires diligent use of a kill file.
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 10:33:43 +0000 (UTC), Black Dragon wrote in :
Thanks for sharing the wealth in such a usable format-- very much appreciated!
Marty
The correct answer is (has been posted here many time not so long ago):
news.eternal-september.org
They require free registration though.
Just Google rec.models.rc.air and it will take you there. That is where I am posting from now.
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 19:03:41 -0500, Red Scholefield wrote in :
I've used Google to tide me over from time to time.
I enjoy having a newsreader to help organize what I'm looking at.
I've plunked down money a couple of times to keep up with Agent. There are lots of other newsreaders out there:
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Marty
go to
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and sign up (it's free)
instructions will be there for what you need to change your reader's account settings to (from verizon to eternal-september)...
pretty painless and free...
Geezer
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