OT Newsreading without Outlook Express

[-::PH::-]

My provider will no longer provide news, so i will have to use an
internet-based thing instead.

Recommendations?

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[cosmic]

On Oct 14, 9:19 pm, "-::PH::-" <no-s...@no-spam.dk> wrote:
> My provider will no longer provide news, so i will have to use an
> internet-based thing instead.

groups.google.com works fine for me

[Jim Carr]

You might think it does, but Google Groups often breaks threads. You
also tend to see a lot more double and triple posts from Google Groups
users. Personally, I find the interface too clunky.

There are plenty of free newsgroup servers. Check out
http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ and stick with OE, Thunderbird, or some
other "real" news client.

[edgy]

-::PH::- wrote:
> My provider will no longer provide news, so i will have to use an
> internet-based thing instead.
>
> Recommendations?
>

Stick with a newsreader (Outlook Express will do if you are already used
to it) and use a free provider. Of course you get what you pay for, but
I have found news.readfreenews.net reliable for reading (with decent
retention), and I usually post through news.datemas.de or
news.aioe.org/nntp.aioe.org

If you are just posting and downloading text - any of the pay providers
that sell blocks (i.e. 5 gigs or something) will take care of you for a
very long time. IIRC the guy who runs readfreenews also runs a very
respected pay server.

[iarwain]

I haven't used Outlook Express in years. In my experience, there were
a lot of posts that didn't show up on my old server under Outlook
Express. So I'll give another vote to Google groups, it's very
convenient since you can just use your browser and not another program.

[Steve Freides]

"-::PH::-" <no-...@no-spam.dk> wrote in message
news:a306a$47126bd7$551824b8$27...@news.arrownet.dk...

Yes, news.individual.net - it'll cost you something like $20 per year
but it's been very good for me. It used to be free, went pay a few
years ago, I stuck with it and have been very happy.

I'm still using Outlook Express which, BTW, supports multiple news
servers, so you can try a few if you like.

-S-

[Jim Carr]

Posts failing to show would not be an OE (or any other newsreader)
problem. It sends the post to the server and either gets a Success or
Failure reply. It notifies you if it doesn't get a success reply. If the
server says "success" but it doesn't show up, there's something else afoot.

[tom]

I see a lot of people kill filing any posts from Google groups as a result
of all the spam that emanates from them.

[Jim Carr]

Yeh, there's actually a group of people who do that and encourage others
to do the same. There's the spam issue as well as other technical issues
(namely breaking threads) that gets them all riled up.

[Javier]

-::PH::- <no-...@no-spam.dk> wrote:
> My provider will no longer provide news, so i will have to use an
> internet-based thing instead.
>
> Recommendations?
>

You can:

1.- find a free (text-only) news provider, such as news.individual.net
2.- find a paid news provider.
3.- use google groups. There is a firefox script that will let you
killfile people so it wouldn't be as horrible as the standard google
groups experience.

I personally opted for #2: news.astraweb.com offers 25GB of news access
for ten bucks - if you only use text news (like me) that's a load: I've
used 0.05GB in 2.5 months. That's something like 0.25GB a year, or
something like a hundred years for ten bucks ;) and I also have binary
access if the need/want arose.

[-::PH::-]

"Jim Carr"

>
> There are plenty of free newsgroup servers. Check out
> http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ and stick with OE, Thunderbird, or some other
> "real" news client.

I did and found aioe.org, that seems to do what i need

Thank you!

Per