Giganews alternative?
Richard Yates
with Giganews and that service can be purchased directly for $8.00 a month.
Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone here uses? RY
R H Draney
>
>Comcast is discontinuing newsgroup access in my area soon. Access has been
>with Giganews and that service can be purchased directly for $8.00 a month.
>Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone here uses? RY
Newsguy's "Basic" service is $7.95 a month and gives you access to binaries,
with a 10GB/month download limit...that also gets you access through the DRN
(Direct Read News) interface so you can keep up with your newsgroups from any
computer with a web browser (they won't let us put Outlook or anything else on
the ones at work)....r
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Skitt
> Richard Yates filted:
>> Comcast is discontinuing newsgroup access in my area soon. Access
>> has been with Giganews and that service can be purchased directly
>> for $8.00 a month. Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone here
>> uses? RY
>
> Newsguy's "Basic" service is $7.95 a month and gives you access to
> binaries, with a 10GB/month download limit...that also gets you
> access through the DRN (Direct Read News) interface so you can keep
> up with your newsgroups from any computer with a web browser (they
> won't let us put Outlook or anything else on the ones at work)....r
As a Comcast subscriber, I just now established a free account with
news.motzarella.org. It works fine. I hope it will last a long time.
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Don Aitken
Several, as long as you don't want binaries. I think individual.net is
still the cheapest, at 10 euros per year. There are also several free
ones, but the trouble with free services is that you don't have much
leverage if they don't work properly.
Nick Spalding gave lots of useful info on free and cheap servers in
Message-ID: <vdkud4temevavc3st...@4ax.com>
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DJ
...
...
> As a Comcast subscriber, I just now established a free account with
> news.motzarella.org. It works fine. I hope it will last a long time.
You are a life saver!
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DJ
just finished setting up an account with motzarella.org
Default User
Some people have reported that calling Comcast customer service and
complaining about the loss of usenet has resulted in a reduction of the
monthly fees.
Brian
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won't shut up.
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Default User
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:43:54 -0700, "Richard Yates"
> <ric...@yatesguitar.com> wrote:
>
> > Comcast is discontinuing newsgroup access in my area soon. Access
> > has been with Giganews and that service can be purchased directly
> > for $8.00 a month. Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone here
> > uses? RY
> >
> Several, as long as you don't want binaries. I think individual.net is
> still the cheapest, at 10 euros per year. There are also several free
> ones, but the trouble with free services is that you don't have much
> leverage if they don't work properly.
After they were mentioned in this groups previously, I investigated
block accounts. Those can be useful if you want text and low to
moderate binary usage. Costs run from $1 - $.50 per gigabyte of
bandwidth, depending on the amount purchased at once. Unless you're
getting TV shows or the like from multimedia groups, a gig should last
most people a long time.
John Varela
(in article <QdadnUgMgYTClXjV...@comcast.com>):
> Comcast is discontinuing newsgroup access in my area soon. Access has been
> with Giganews and that service can be purchased directly for $8.00 a month.
> Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone here uses? RY
When Verizon cut back on newsgroups, including cutting all the alt
groups, I investigated alternatives and settled on individual.net as
being universally praised and not at all expensive. No binaries, if
that matters to you.
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Trade NEW lamps for OLD for email.
pritsy
"DJ" <nos...@no.no> wrote in message
news:gc3gsi$euk$1...@registered.motzarella.org...
As did I, but I added a second (free) account with albasani.net as backup.
Nick Spalding
on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:55:17 +0100:
> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 10:43:54 -0700, "Richard Yates"
> <ric...@yatesguitar.com> wrote:
>
> >Comcast is discontinuing newsgroup access in my area soon. Access has been
> >with Giganews and that service can be purchased directly for $8.00 a month.
> >Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone here uses? RY
> >
> Several, as long as you don't want binaries. I think individual.net is
> still the cheapest, at 10 euros per year. There are also several free
> ones, but the trouble with free services is that you don't have much
> leverage if they don't work properly.
>
> Nick Spalding gave lots of useful info on free and cheap servers in
> Message-ID: <vdkud4temevavc3st...@4ax.com>
Thank you, I was just about to post it all over again!
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Chris Caputo
Altopia is $6/month. No usage limits. SSL included.
I hope you'll consider us. Happy to answer any questions.
Chris Caputo
President, Altopia Corporation
Don Aitken
Those considering this option might like to bear in mind that a fair
number of people bin anything from Altopia, because of the amount of
spam and miscellaneous garbage they transmit. (This isn't because they
don't care; it's because they adhere to the tired old absolutist view
of "freedom of speech", and therefore don't filter anything).
Chris Caputo
>On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:48:56 +0000 (UTC), Chris Caputo
><cca...@alt.net> wrote:
>>"Richard Yates" <ric...@yatesguitar.com> writes:
>>>Comcast is discontinuing newsgroup access in my area soon. Access has
>>>been with Giganews and that service can be purchased directly for $8.00 a
>>>month. Are there cheaper alternatives that anyone here uses? RY
>>
>>Altopia is $6/month. No usage limits. SSL included.
>>
>> https://www.altopia.com/
>>
>>I hope you'll consider us. Happy to answer any questions.
>>
>>Chris Caputo
>>President, Altopia Corporation
>
>Those considering this option might like to bear in mind that a fair
>number of people bin anything from Altopia, because of the amount of
>spam and miscellaneous garbage they transmit. (This isn't because they
>don't care; it's because they adhere to the tired old absolutist view
>of "freedom of speech", and therefore don't filter anything).
Fair enough. Our policies are up at:
https://www.altopia.com/policy.html
Some people like our approach to speech while others don't.