Newsgroups ?

Daniel Royer

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Nov 23, 2009, 4:16:42 AM11/23/09

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I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can access
this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like sci.math, etc...
Any idea, apart from going web?

TIA

Daniel

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Wilf

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:04:52 AM11/23/09

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Daniel Royer wrote:
> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can access
> this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like sci.math, etc...
> Any idea, apart from going web?
>
> TIA
>
> Daniel
>

Try news.aioe.org ?

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Daniel Royer

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:32:58 AM11/23/09

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I can read but I can't write.

Dave Royal

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:34:10 AM11/23/09

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Wilf wrote:

I use aioe.org when I have to
http://news.aioe.org/
but it's a bit unreliable and it has (or had) poor retention.

If you need something better people often recommend individual net for
€10 a year:
http://www.individual.net/

Dave
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Daniel Royer

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:40:30 AM11/23/09

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Thank you. I'll give it a try!

Da niel

PeeGee

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Nov 23, 2009, 6:19:45 AM11/23/09

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Daniel Royer wrote:
> On 23.11.2009 11:34, Dave Royal wrote:
>> Wilf wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Daniel Royer wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
>>>> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can
>>>> access this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like
>>>> sci.math, etc... Any idea, apart from going web?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Try news.aioe.org ?
>>>
>> I use aioe.org when I have to
>> http://news.aioe.org/
>> but it's a bit unreliable and it has (or had) poor retention.
>>
>> If you need something better people often recommend individual net for

>> â‚¬10 a year:

>> http://www.individual.net/
>>
>> Dave
>>
> Thank you. I'll give it a try!
>
> Da niel
>

I used to use aioe.org, but switched to news.eternal-september.org
(which was previously Motzarella.org) as my backup provider.

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us...@domain.invalid

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Nov 23, 2009, 6:21:11 AM11/23/09

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On 23/11/2009 09:16, Daniel Royer wrote:
> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can access
> this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like sci.math, etc...
> Any idea, apart from going web?
>
> TIA
>
> Daniel
>

freenews.netfront.net
nth@<del>yipple.com

Ron Hunter

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Nov 23, 2009, 7:38:20 AM11/23/09

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On 11/23/2009 3:16 AM, Daniel Royer wrote:
> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can access
> this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like sci.math, etc...
> Any idea, apart from going web?
>
> TIA
>
> Daniel
>

Sure. Check into Giganews. Very low prices, great retention, and VERY
reliable.

Lou

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Nov 23, 2009, 7:55:18 AM11/23/09

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Daniel Royer wrote:
> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can access
> this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like sci.math, etc...
> Any idea, apart from going web?
>
> TIA
>
> Daniel
>

As mentioned by PeeGee http://www.eternal-september.org/
Page tells about it.

Lou

s|b

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Nov 23, 2009, 8:13:33 AM11/23/09

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On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:16:42 +0100, Daniel Royer wrote:

> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can access
> this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like sci.math, etc...
> Any idea, apart from going web?

albasani.net
eternal-september.org
x-privat.org
aioe.org
...

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Greywolf

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Nov 23, 2009, 9:29:57 AM11/23/09

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Daniel Royer wrote:
> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can access
> this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like sci.math, etc...
> Any idea, apart from going web?
>
> TIA
>
> Daniel
>

I think you'll have to bite the bullet and pay for a Usenet service. I
use Newshosting, it's $10 a month for the basic service, I haven't
reached the download limit yet (I subscribe to transport and gardening
picture groups). Giganews also has a good rep, and costs about the same.

cheers,
wolf k.

s|b

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Nov 23, 2009, 9:41:19 AM11/23/09

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On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:29:57 -0500, Greywolf wrote:

> I think you'll have to bite the bullet and pay for a Usenet service.

Only if you're interested in binaries...

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Leonidas Jones

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Nov 23, 2009, 9:00:23 PM11/23/09

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PeeGee wrote:
> Daniel Royer wrote:
>> On 23.11.2009 11:34, Dave Royal wrote:
>>> Wilf wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Daniel Royer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
>>>>> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can
>>>>> access this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like
>>>>> sci.math, etc... Any idea, apart from going web?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA
>>>>>
>>>>> Daniel
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Try news.aioe.org ?
>>>>
>>> I use aioe.org when I have to
>>> http://news.aioe.org/
>>> but it's a bit unreliable and it has (or had) poor retention.
>>>
>>> If you need something better people often recommend individual net for
>>> â‚¬10 a year:
>>> http://www.individual.net/
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>> Thank you. I'll give it a try!
>>
>> Da niel
>>
>
> I used to use aioe.org, but switched to news.eternal-september.org
> (which was previously Motzarella.org) as my backup provider.
>

news.erternal-september.org works very well for text groups from here.

Lee

Daniel Royer

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Nov 24, 2009, 3:44:54 AM11/24/09

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On 23.11.2009 10:16, Daniel Royer wrote:
> I know this is not the right place to ask, but ... my provider and my
> university have discontinued their usenet newsgroups. I still can
> access this group (obviously !) but I need to access groups like
> sci.math, etc...
> Any idea, apart from going web?
>
> TIA
>
> Daniel
>

Thank you to everyone who contributed. I finally settled on

news.eternal-september.org

which seems to be working fine. That is, if you don't forget to refresh the subscribe window !!!