Re: recommended news servers?

John Larkin

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Mar 22, 2005, 3:25:17 PM3/22/05

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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:04:53 -0800, Bob Stephens
<stephen...@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Can anyone recommend a good, public access news server? Earthlink
>'improved' their servers such that I can't access them remotely via the
>web anymore so I've cancelled my account. I've tried a few free ones,
>but the performance has been very spotty, especially when I try to reply
>to a post. There seems to be selective access to certain features based
>on load?
>
>TIA
>
>Bob

Supernews. Costs a few bucks a month, though.

John

Keith Williams

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Mar 22, 2005, 4:35:29 PM3/22/05

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In article <d1pq6c$2b7d$2...@news.wplus.net>,
stephen...@earthlink.net says...

> Can anyone recommend a good, public access news server? Earthlink
> 'improved' their servers such that I can't access them remotely via the
> web anymore so I've cancelled my account. I've tried a few free ones,
> but the performance has been very spotty, especially when I try to reply
> to a post. There seems to be selective access to certain features based
> on load?

Individual.net has been very good for the past six or so months I've
used it. No binaries though. It was free until recently (actually
4/1), but it's still _cheap_. $10Euro (cost me $13) per year.

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Keith

Guy Macon

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Mar 22, 2005, 4:52:48 PM3/22/05

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Bob Stephens wrote:

The best-run news service is Supernews by far, and is the largest
non-free news service.

Individual.net is the largest news service and is free - for now.
The university that runs it has announced that they will be
charging, but the rate will still be the lowest on the net.
I plan on buying an account on the theory that they have the
infrastructure to handle a huge number of users and will lose a
lot of them when the charges start, lightening the load.

Bob Stephens

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Mar 22, 2005, 2:04:53 PM3/22/05

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Can anyone recommend a good, public access news server? Earthlink
'improved' their servers such that I can't access them remotely via the
web anymore so I've cancelled my account. I've tried a few free ones,
but the performance has been very spotty, especially when I try to reply
to a post. There seems to be selective access to certain features based
on load?

TIA

Bob

John Fields

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Mar 22, 2005, 3:02:24 PM3/22/05

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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:04:53 -0800, Bob Stephens
<stephen...@earthlink.net> wrote:

I've been using Giganews for about a week. So far, so good. :-)
Reasonable, too.

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John Fields

Bob Stephens

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Mar 22, 2005, 4:38:03 PM3/22/05

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Thanks John. I'll check them out.

Bob

Bob Stephens

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Mar 22, 2005, 4:37:36 PM3/22/05

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Thanks John. I'll check it out.

Bob

Jens Tingleff

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Mar 23, 2005, 2:32:59 AM3/23/05

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Bob Stephens wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good, public access news server?

I've only had good experiences with Newsguy, http://www.newsguy.com/ .

Best Regards

Jens

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