Any good third party newsserver

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Hi

I'm thinking of migrating to AOL broadband and apparently they don't
have a news server
Any good third party news servers about?
 
I have heard people that are displeased with aol....

ask around before you do that...
 
Hi

I'm thinking of migrating to AOL broadband and apparently they don't
have a news server
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Even though I'm a fellow sufferer at PlusNet, I still wouldn't move
to AOL; they're a PITA big time. Think about Nildram if you've had
enough at PN.
Any good third party news servers about?
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Plenty of fairly cheap 3rd party NSPs:
Supernews
Forte
EasyNews
etc
etc
 
Even though I'm a fellow sufferer at PlusNet, I still wouldn't move
to AOL; they're a PITA big time. Think about Nildram if you've had
enough at PN.
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I use AOL Broadband. Actually I'd use AOL now than I would 5 or even 10
years ago. They have improved. Alot more features now (on the other hand
those same features are free to AIM users).
 
hummingbird said:
Even though I'm a fellow sufferer at PlusNet, I still wouldn't move
to AOL; they're a PITA big time.
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It's there fantabulous Babya-esque browser that used to get my goat. I
was on 56K dialup at the time. So you install their stuff from CD, then
the first thing it wants to do it download a honking multi-megabyte
upgrade from its server, all using 56k. Just why AOL thought this was
the way to go is beyond me.
 
leapt out of the bath and screamed "EUREKA!" before typing in
alt.comp.freeware:
Any good third party news servers about?
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Hi,

This faq below is posted into ABSR.bbc and is worth a look for
useful advice;

/quote

Subject: Faq for users with poor retention and completeness
From: "alt.binaries.sounds.radio.bbc"
<alt.binaries.sounds.radio.bbc> Newsgroups:
alt.binaries.sounds.radio.bbc

If you are interested in many of the files from absr.bbc, a pay
server in addition to your ISP is great and needn't cause hardship.

There are many other news servers available. A useful listing, with
pricing for each and reviews for some, can be found at
http://www.smr-usenet.com/review/index.shtml or
http://www.usenet-provider.com/.

One of the best is EasyNews, which keeps up to 30 days of posts from
absr.bbc. In addition to their news server, you can search and
download files using a Web browser (once you are registered, go to
http://members.easynews.com Easynews has discontinued its Free Trial
offer because of a large number of abuses with false credit card
numbers. http://www.easynews.com/trial.phtml They have now
instituted a Refund Policy that issues credit if you cancel within 1
week, and have downloaded less than 1 Gigabyte.
http://www.easynews.com/policies/refundpolicy.phtml

GigaNews also has good retention for this group. They often run a
free trial, in the form of a no-risk cancellation option for up to 3
days after opening an account.

If you can't afford a premium news server, or don't have a credit
card, there are a few free or almost free alternatives subject to a
50MB per day download limit.

One such is TeraNews, which retains 15 days absr.bbc. A one-time $4
fee gets you 50MB a day forever.

Yottanews offer 1Gig free per month
http://www.yottanews.com/freeaccount.php

Astraweb offers a time umlimited 25GB block download for $10.

Useful links for further information

http://www.usenettools.net
http://www.wowfabgroovy.da.ru/usenet.htm
http://www.wordaloud.com
http://www.help4newbies.fsnet.co.uk/home.htm

/endquote.

Myself, I'm in the UK, and use Astraweb and Octanews. Octanews is in
the US, so suffers from some speed slowdown, but has good retention.
Astraweb sometimes seems slow in replication etc, but does get good
speeds as they have a european server;

http://www.news.astraweb.com/

http://www.octanews.com/

HTH
 
James said:
leapt out of the bath and screamed "EUREKA!" before typing in
alt.comp.freeware:


Hi,

This faq below is posted into ABSR.bbc and is worth a look for
useful advice;

/quote

Subject: Faq for users with poor retention and completeness
From: "alt.binaries.sounds.radio.bbc"
<alt.binaries.sounds.radio.bbc> Newsgroups:
alt.binaries.sounds.radio.bbc

If you are interested in many of the files from absr.bbc, a pay
server in addition to your ISP is great and needn't cause hardship.

There are many other news servers available. A useful listing, with
pricing for each and reviews for some, can be found at
http://www.smr-usenet.com/review/index.shtml or
http://www.usenet-provider.com/.

One of the best is EasyNews, which keeps up to 30 days of posts from
absr.bbc. In addition to their news server, you can search and
download files using a Web browser (once you are registered, go to
http://members.easynews.com Easynews has discontinued its Free Trial
offer because of a large number of abuses with false credit card
numbers. http://www.easynews.com/trial.phtml They have now
instituted a Refund Policy that issues credit if you cancel within 1
week, and have downloaded less than 1 Gigabyte.
http://www.easynews.com/policies/refundpolicy.phtml

GigaNews also has good retention for this group. They often run a
free trial, in the form of a no-risk cancellation option for up to 3
days after opening an account.

If you can't afford a premium news server, or don't have a credit
card, there are a few free or almost free alternatives subject to a
50MB per day download limit.

One such is TeraNews, which retains 15 days absr.bbc. A one-time $4
fee gets you 50MB a day forever.

Yottanews offer 1Gig free per month
http://www.yottanews.com/freeaccount.php

Astraweb offers a time umlimited 25GB block download for $10.

Useful links for further information

http://www.usenettools.net
http://www.wowfabgroovy.da.ru/usenet.htm
http://www.wordaloud.com
http://www.help4newbies.fsnet.co.uk/home.htm

/endquote.

Myself, I'm in the UK, and use Astraweb and Octanews. Octanews is in
the US, so suffers from some speed slowdown, but has good retention.
Astraweb sometimes seems slow in replication etc, but does get good
speeds as they have a european server;

http://www.news.astraweb.com/

http://www.octanews.com/

HTH
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There is also teranews.
 
FWIW, my added comments come from my observance of bitchings posted in
various NGs (IOW, kinda like 'ask the users to find out the quality'
some services get complained about much more than others...and don't get
defended as much, either

Subject: Faq for users with poor retention and completeness
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One of the best is EasyNews, which keeps up to 30 days of posts from
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LOTS of complaints, so many that it casts this entire review in doubt to
my mind
GigaNews also has good retention for this group. They often run a
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better, but still...
If you can't afford a premium news server, or don't have a credit
card, there are a few free or almost free alternatives subject to a
50MB per day download limit.
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which is not much really. but anyway, the main problem with the free
servers is UNRELIABLE (and boy oh boy do I know it from personal and
recent and currently ongoing experience)
There has also been a LOT of talk about people getting burned on the
one-time fees, or never getting contacted back. Who know what the hell
is going on.
One such is TeraNews, which retains 15 days absr.bbc. A one-time $4
fee gets you 50MB a day forever.
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conflicting reports
Yottanews offer 1Gig free per month
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BAD...from personal experience
Astraweb offers a time umlimited 25GB block download for $10.
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GOOD apparently

http://www.news.astraweb.com/
http://www.octanews.com/
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also GOOD

the one I've probably heard the best about would be NewsGuy
 
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