Re: AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down

[Angelo Campanella]

news-...@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
> offering access to the Usenet netnews service. If you wish to continue
> reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party
> vendors.
> Distribution: AT&T Worldnet Usenet Netnews Servers

The end of something!

Hopefully, it's not out of line to discuss the availble vendors for such a
service. Does All/BellSouth/Yahoo have such?

On Googling it, the first hit was "Razor"

Suggestions?

Freebees?

Angelo Campanella

[Robert Miles]

"Angelo Campanella" <a.camp...@att.net> wrote in message
news:Tb9_l.74594$d36....@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...

Nearly all the freebies I know about are known for being unreliable except
for a few that only carry newsgroups related to products of the company
that runs them. However, if you want to try them anyway, they are:

http://news.aioe.org/

http://www.readfreenews.com/

http://www.eternal-september.org/
(Formerly known as motzarella.org)

http://www.x-privat.org/index.php

http://albasani.net/index.html.en

http://news.ett.com.ua/

http://news.solani.org/

http://news.tornevall.net/?do=unused

http://www.usenet4all.se/

Some lists of free servers:

http://freenews.maxbaud.net/

http://www.disenter.com/

http://freefreenews.50webs.com/

http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en

If you want one that's free, offers web viewing instead of
NNTP like most of the others, and is so infested with
spammers that posts entered there are often deleted
unread, there's:

http://groups.google.com/

If you want one that's cheap, reliable, and filters out most
of the spam, there's:

http://www.news.individual.net/

If you want one that's cheap and not very reliable, but
offers binaries, try the limited volume or block accounts
at:

http://www.teranews.com/

http://usenet-news.net/?ref=103974

However, note that both of these have recently added a
large number of newsgroups to their lists without actually
making access to these newsgroups available.

If you're willing to pay more for a reliable server with a
good selection of newsgroups, here are some:

http://www.giganews.com/

http://www.newsfeeds.com/

Lists of more of the ones that mostly charge more:

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/

http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers

http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/usenet-providers.html

http://www.newsreaders.com/newsfeeds/

http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html

http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm

http://www.newsadmin.com/

http://www.newzbot.com/

http://news.anthologeek.net/

Robert Miles

[Angelo Campanella]

Thanks for this listing.

Ange