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OT - free news servers...?
my current news server news.individual.net is changing to a charge service of about £5 a year, which is peanuts, but if i can help it i would rather stay on a free server so can anyone tell me of any good free usenet servers that allow posting and reading i would e grateful for the help, i'v looked around on google alot the last 2 days and found nothing but free servers that don't allow posting or free servers that do allow posting but dont allow reading (dunno how that works) and a few that require you do buy a client in order to get freee usenet, which isnt actually free really is it i know this is OT but i couldn't think of a relevant place to post it, and we are all using usenet then surely posting anywhere on usenet about usenet is alright? and im sure the people here know more about it than the people in alt.culture.usenet to name but one.... that place is dead. no posters hardly anyhow if anyone could help me out... cheers On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:01:28 -0000, "Christo"
<chris@juststuffnospam.co.uk> wrote: >hi I looked a long time ago just for the hell of it and it was torture. > >my current news server They all seemed to really suck big time. They were also really unstable --- the lists. You would go through hundreds of listings and find maybe 5 that worked and those you never knew when they would go down. People have mentioned Teranews but they charge a one time 4.95 fee I think. Ive never tried them. On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:47:19 +0000, J***@Smith.com wrote:
Show quoteHide quote > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:01:28 -0000, "Christo" I just paid them the 20 Euros that they asked for (It's 10E per year but> <chris@juststuffnospam.co.uk> wrote: > >>hi >> >>my current news server > > I looked a long time ago just for the hell of it and it was torture. > They all seemed to really suck big time. They were also really > unstable --- the lists. You would go through hundreds of listings and > find maybe 5 that worked and those you never knew when they would go > down. > > People have mentioned Teranews but they charge a one time 4.95 fee I > think. > Ive never tried them. you are locked into an automatic 2nd year). I've been using them for years and I've always been happy with them. It's surprising that they have remained free for so long, this move to a paid service was probably inevitable. It was nice getting a free lunch while it lasted but at $1 a month it's still a bargain. "Christo" <chris@juststuffnospam.co.uk> wrote in message Aarrrgh ! This comes as a shock to me. I posted a similarnews:37lsnbF5evgo3U1@individual.net... > hi > > my current news server > > news.individual.net is changing to a charge service > of about £5 a year, which is peanuts, but if i can help it i would rather > stay on a free server > > so can anyone tell me of any good free usenet servers that allow posting and > reading > request in this very newsgroup a few months ago because my ISP's newsserver is totally unreliable. I believe it was you and someone else who pointed me to news.individual.net. I registered there and have found it very reliable. In fact, it was only last night that I thought I'd send you an email or post here to thank you. The one-time registration fee is not much but for people in locations like mine, the process of sending it can be a big hassle. Show quoteHide quote > i would e grateful for the help, i'v looked around on google alot the last 2 > days and found nothing but free servers that don't allow posting or free > servers that do allow posting but dont allow reading (dunno how that works) > > and a few that require you do buy a client in order to get freee usenet, > which isnt actually free really is it > > i know this is OT but i couldn't think of a relevant place to post it, and > we are all using usenet then surely posting anywhere on usenet about usenet > is alright? > > and im sure the people here know more about it than the people in > alt.culture.usenet to name but one.... that place is dead. no posters hardly > > anyhow if anyone could help me out... cheers > >
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"Zotin Khuma" <zoti***@rediffmail.com> wrote in message Correction. 5UKP a year and not one-time ? Then thatnews:37m6tvF5ek5pkU1@individual.net... > > "Christo" <chris@juststuffnospam.co.uk> wrote in message > news:37lsnbF5evgo3U1@individual.net... > > hi > > > > my current news server > > news.individual.net is changing to a charge service > > of about £5 a year, which is peanuts, but if i can help it i would rather > > stay on a free server > ......[snip]...... > The one-time registration fee is not much but for people > in locations like mine, the process of sending it can be > a big hassle. > definitely leaves me out.
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"Zotin Khuma" <zoti***@rediffmail.com> wrote in message yeap i think individual have been getting some abuse from people just news:37m6tvF5ek5pkU1@individual.net... > > "Christo" <chris@juststuffnospam.co.uk> wrote in message > news:37lsnbF5evgo3U1@individual.net... >> hi >> >> my current news server >> >> news.individual.net is changing to a charge service >> of about £5 a year, which is peanuts, but if i can help it i would rather >> stay on a free server >> >> so can anyone tell me of any good free usenet servers that allow posting > and >> reading >> > Aarrrgh ! This comes as a shock to me. I posted a similar > request in this very newsgroup a few months ago because > my ISP's newsserver is totally unreliable. I believe it was > you and someone else who pointed me to news.individual.net. > > I registered there and have found it very reliable. In fact, > it was only last night that I thought I'd send you an email > or post here to thank you. > > The one-time registration fee is not much but for people > in locations like mine, the process of sending it can be > a big hassle. > >> i would e grateful for the help, i'v looked around on google alot the >> last > 2 >> days and found nothing but free servers that don't allow posting or free >> servers that do allow posting but dont allow reading (dunno how that > works) >> >> and a few that require you do buy a client in order to get freee usenet, >> which isnt actually free really is it >> >> i know this is OT but i couldn't think of a relevant place to post it, >> and >> we are all using usenet then surely posting anywhere on usenet about > usenet >> is alright? >> >> and im sure the people here know more about it than the people in >> alt.culture.usenet to name but one.... that place is dead. no posters > hardly >> >> anyhow if anyone could help me out... cheers >> signing up, shame that their charging 10 euros for a year now, i been using them forr agges and agges well about a year and a half when i moved from freeserve (now wannadoo) to BT broadband, freeserves news server was in accessible without a freeserve account... too bad huh Im thinking of just paying the fee for individual and keeping my existing account, it isnt much... but their based in germany aren't they? so ill have to pay a conversion fee wont i for pounds into euros, i think individual was the only free news server that had any decency, like john smith said i searched for hours and hours and never found any that were reputable to the standard of individual. Thanks for replying anyhoo hope people on individual manage to find a server, i think. and john smith cheers for terra news i had checked them out, they seem reasonable. only a one time setup fee may be better than a yearly fee Thanks again Christo
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"Christo" <chris@juststuffnospam.co.uk> wrote in message Use newzbot.com to find a free NNTP server that carries the newsgroup in news:37lsnbF5evgo3U1@individual.net... > hi > > my current news server > > news.individual.net is changing to a charge service > > of about £5 a year, which is peanuts, but if i can help it i would > rather stay on a free server > > so can anyone tell me of any good free usenet servers that allow > posting and reading > > i would e grateful for the help, i'v looked around on google alot the > last 2 days and found nothing but free servers that don't allow > posting or free servers that do allow posting but dont allow reading > (dunno how that works) > > and a few that require you do buy a client in order to get freee > usenet, which isnt actually free really is it > > i know this is OT but i couldn't think of a relevant place to post it, > and we are all using usenet then surely posting anywhere on usenet > about usenet is alright? > > and im sure the people here know more about it than the people in > alt.culture.usenet to name but one.... that place is dead. no posters > hardly > > anyhow if anyone could help me out... cheers > which you are interested. Since they are free, they are often throttled, may disappear, or are unreliable. Since you aren't doing binaries (because you were using individual.net that didn't used to carry them when they were a free provider), a one-time $3.95 USD charge (and free thereafter) for Teranews with a 50MB/day quota should be sufficient for you. -- ____________________________________________________________ Post your replies to the newsgroup. Share with others. E-mail reply: Remove "NIXTHIS" and add "#VS811" to Subject. ____________________________________________________________ |
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