ISP ending Usenet service: which free/cheap ones are best?
AKT
> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
> offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
Bob Lombard
Best schmest. Forteinc is $2.95/month and unobtrusive. Hmm... it isn't
intrusive either. They hitch to usnews mostly, which can be accessed
directly (also for a fee?).
John Navas
<090620090938243222%a...@null.void>:
Tera News <http://www.teranews.com/>
One-time setup fee of $4, no monthly charge:
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Savageduck
I am using Panic.com http://www.panic.com/unison/access.php for $9.95/month.
I see you are a Mac/Thoth user. I also paid for Panic's client Unison,
which I find very Mac-centric and intuitive to use, but that would be
your decision. Their Usenet access can be used with whichever client
you want.
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Nobody
"AKT" <a...@null.void> wrote in message
news:090620090938243222%a...@null.void...
both are free, ok most of the time
William Black
>
> "AKT" <a...@null.void> wrote in message
> news:090620090938243222%a...@null.void...
>> My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>>
>>> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
>>> offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
>>
>> Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
>
> news.motzarella.org
Seconded.
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Jim Menning
"Nobody" <nob...@cares.invalid> wrote in message
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I've tried both of them and also free.teranews.com and textnews.new.cambrium.nl .
But the one I found to be consistently the best was news.albasani.net . They seem to
have lots less downtime and greater retention than most. I also kept the teranews
just for the binaries groups, which albasani doesn't carry.
Don Lancaster
news.individual.net works well for us.
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> AKT wrote:
>> My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>>
>>> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
>>> offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
>>
>> Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
>
> news.individual.net works well for us.
OMG, can you autograph my copy of the TTL Cookbook?!
James E. Morrow
> AKT wrote:
> > My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
> >
> >> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
> >> offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
> >
> > Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
>
> news.individual.net works well for us.
>
>
the web sites of the various providers.
Options for free or low cost news servers.
Individual.net
Registration required. Price 10 Eros a year. No binaries. No sex
groups. No nonsense. This is a very dependable server for text. Spam
filtering is superior to most other servers I've used.
newsgate. xprivat.org
http://www.x-privat.org/international.php
Registration required. This server in now free. Text and some (few)
binaries. This server is faster than
individual.net but may lack some groups. Its binary completion should
not be depended upon.
Sunsite.dk
Free text only, registration required. This server now only carries
the comp groups.
News.aioe
No registration required. Free server. Text only. Limit of 25 posts
per day.
Motzarella.org
http://motzarella.org/
A free server, registration required.
"Apart from de.* (including de.alt.dateien.*) news.motzarella.org
carries the Big 8, alt.* (approx. 8000 groups) and several regional
hierarchies (more than 200).
For tests, information and support for users of news.motzarella.org the
local hierarchy motzarella.* is open to unregistered users, too.
Retention is currently 1 year for de.*, 40 days for alt.* and 30 days
for the Big 8 and other hierarchies."
***********************************************************************
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Albasani.net
Like Motarella, Albasani.net is free and requires registration. Easy
email registration.
=3FDo you have binary groups?
We have de.alt.dateien.misc and de.alt.dateien.weibsbilder, but none of
the big binary hierarchies.=3F See also
http://albasani.net/technical/cleanfeed.html.en#Binaries_Allowed
Some limits on cross posting across domains.
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Astraweb.com
Paid server with block plans.
http://www.news.astraweb.com/downloadplans.html
We are offering $25 for 110GB! Other plans available.
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tony cooper
<jamese...@email.com> wrote:
>http://news.individual.net/
>
>Registration required. Price 10 Eros a year. No binaries. No sex
>groups. No nonsense. This is a very dependable server for text. Spam
>filtering is superior to most other servers I've used.
I've been using news.individual.net ("the German server")for years.
It was free until a couple of years ago. I found it complicated to
pay for the first time because they had to be paid in Euros (10 Euro =
US $14.07), but I paid through credit card with ClickandBuy and still
renew through them. I think they take PayPal now.
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Bob Larter
Ask in alt.free.news-servers, they should be able to recommend several.
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OMG is not currently reachable.
Besides, that would be forgery.
Your name
news:i7us259fq938gqqff...@4ax.com:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:38:24 -0500, AKT <a...@null.void> wrote in
> <090620090938243222%a...@null.void>:
>
>>My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>>
>>> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
>>> offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
>>
>>Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
>
> Tera News <http://www.teranews.com/>
> One-time setup fee of $4, no monthly charge:
And limited to what, 2 mb a day ?
Maybe good if you only browse text groups, for binaries try easynews
James E. Morrow
@earthlink.net says...
Click and Buy works for me but Citibank false alerts claiming that the
charge is fraudulent. This happens every April Fools Day.
Dan Szymborski
jamese...@email.com says...
I love using Paypal, simply because of the ease of generating
one-time use credit card numbers.
I was on Time Warner and they discontinued usenet. I tried
doing it through Google Groups, but I don't care for reading
usenet in a web format, so I use the free text newsgroup
service at motzarella.org.
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SMS
> OMG is not currently reachable.
Maybe not by you. I have a direct line.
Atheist Chaplain
news:pPmYl.13072$im1....@nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com...
> Don Lancaster wrote:
>
>> OMG is not currently reachable.
>
> Maybe not by you. I have a direct line.
time to get your medication levels checked again ;-)
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SMS
Depending on where you are, you might look for a provider that isn't
discontinuing Usenet, rather than looking for free Usenet service.
But check out "https://news.individual.net/".
Paul Furman
I've been fine with the free motzarella.org service for about a week.
Funny though, when I tried reading this thread last night, I had reached
the daily limit:
http://www.eternal-september.org/
"The number of connections per day and per user has been limited to 1200."
Which is fine really... if I reach that limit I should go out & play in
the sun for a while <g>.
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www.baynatives.com
all google groups messages filtered due to spam
Miles
> SMS wrote:
>> AKT wrote:
>>> My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>>>
>>>> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
>>>> offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
>>> Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
>> Depending on where you are, you might look for a provider that isn't
>> discontinuing Usenet, rather than looking for free Usenet service.
>>
>> But check out "https://news.individual.net/".
>
> I've been fine with the free motzarella.org service for about a week.
> Funny though, when I tried reading this thread last night, I had reached
> the daily limit:
> http://www.eternal-september.org/
> "The number of connections per day and per user has been limited to 1200."
> Which is fine really... if I reach that limit I should go out & play in
> the sun for a while <g>.
>
Perhaps you are downloading the msgs in their entirety, not simply the
headers?
Lumpy
> Perhaps you are downloading the msgs in their entirety, not simply the
> headers?
From six different, cross-posted newsgroups!
Pay the fuckin' 13 bucks per year for individual.net
from the Univ of Berlin.
Lumpy
In Your Ears for 40 Something Years
www.LumpyMusic.com
Paul Furman
Just headers and I actually read a fairly small percentage. There are 4
photo groups I frequent (11 others I rarely visit but header counts
load) and I use a lot of filters to mark as read as well as marking
cross-posted threads ignored so a whole lot of headers... I kind of
doubt I actually viewed 1,200 messages yesterday though I guess it's
possible... I flip through them pretty quickly with hot keys in thunderbird.
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<lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote in
<7asd5lF...@mid.individual.net>:
>Miles wrote:
>
>> Perhaps you are downloading the msgs in their entirety, not simply the
>> headers?
>
>From six different, cross-posted newsgroups!
>
>Pay the fuckin' 13 bucks per year for individual.net
>from the Univ of Berlin.
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30 GB $ 10.00 0.33 USD/GB
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Miles
> Miles wrote:
>> * Paul Furman wrote, On 6/29/2009 10:09:
>>> SMS wrote:
>>>> AKT wrote:
>>>>> My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>>>>>
>>> I've been fine with the free motzarella.org service for about a week.
>>> Funny though, when I tried reading this thread last night, I had
>>> reached the daily limit:
>>> http://www.eternal-september.org/
>>> "The number of connections per day and per user has been limited to
>>> 1200."
>>> Which is fine really... if I reach that limit I should go out & play
>>> in the sun for a while <g>.
>>>
>> Perhaps you are downloading the msgs in their entirety, not simply the
>> headers?
>
> Just headers and I actually read a fairly small percentage. There are 4
> photo groups I frequent (11 others I rarely visit but header counts
> load) and I use a lot of filters to mark as read as well as marking
> cross-posted threads ignored so a whole lot of headers... I kind of
> doubt I actually viewed 1,200 messages yesterday though I guess it's
> possible... I flip through them pretty quickly with hot keys in thunderbird.
>
Interesting, yesterday I registered with motzarella and opened 14
groups with 20,341 msgs. Opened perhaps 100 of those headers to
ascertain importance and mark in red (Thunderbird coloring). Also had
to change all from sort by ascending to descending, but don't believe
that would be seen on their computers.
Paul Furman
Good point. I must have actually opened 1,200 messages yesterday because
when I first set it up I had to download a zillion messages to get up to
date.
Ron Hunter
some news servers don't charge for downloading headers. Giganews
doesn't, and they have 12GB/month for $12.99US. Very reliable, fast,
and great retention. I have no stake on any kind in Giganews, but I am
happy with their value.
SMS
> You don't have to download ANY messages, just the message headers, and
> some news servers don't charge for downloading headers. Giganews
> doesn't, and they have 12GB/month for $12.99US. Very reliable, fast,
> and great retention. I have no stake on any kind in Giganews, but I am
> happy with their value.
If you need the binaries, then paying such a high monthly cost might
make sense.
If you just want the text, then news.individual.net, at 10 EUR/year
(about $14/year) is a much better deal.
Kelly Greene
>>
>> Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
AIOE http://news.aioe.org/
Albasani http://albasani.net/index.html.en
CNNTP http://www.cnntp.org/cnntp - cnntp.org
ETT http://news.ett.com.ua/
Motzarella http://motzarella.org/
Solani http://news.solani.org/
Tornevall http://news.tornevall.net/
Usenet4all http://www.usenet4all.se (blocks all posts from Google)
Sebastien Willemijn's list
free.sonic-news.com
news.mixmin.net
news.solani.org
news.datemas.de
news.tornevall.net
news.motzarella.org
news.albasani.net
news.readfreenews.net
allnews.readfreenews.net
news.aioe.org
gail.ripco.com
news.gwdg.de
nntp.idg.pl
usenet.ath.cx
See descriptors annex2
http://80.247.230.136/nntpeng.htm
Free UseNet providers:
AIOE http://news.aioe.org/
Albasani http://albasani.net/index.html.en
CNNTP http://www.cnntp.org/cnntp
ETT http://news.ett.com.ua/
Motzarella http://motzarella.org/
Solani http://news.solani.org/
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> My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>
> > offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
>
www.groups.google.com is a free web-based interface suitable for those
not interested in binaries
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> On Jun 9, 9:38 am, AKT <a...@null.void> wrote:
>
> > My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>
> > > Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
> > > offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
>
> > Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
>
> not interested in binaries
>
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[original thread title restored]
Kalman Rubinson
wrote:
>My ISP (ATT) just sent this:
>
>> Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
>> offering access to the Usenet netnews service.
>
>Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?
I have been using News.individual.DE for years now. Cost is
10Euro/year.
Kal