recommended news servers?

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Bob Stephens

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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
 
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:04:53 -0800, Bob Stephens
<stephensdigital@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?
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I've been using Giganews for about a week. So far, so good. :)
Reasonable, too.

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John Fields
 
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:04:53 -0800, Bob Stephens
<stephensdigital@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
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Supernews. Costs a few bucks a month, though.

John
 
In article <d1pq6c$2b7d$2@news.wplus.net>,
stephensdigital@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?
Click to expand...
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.

--
Keith
 
John Fields wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:04:53 -0800, Bob Stephens
stephensdigital@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?


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

Thanks John. I'll check it out.
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Bob
 
John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:04:53 -0800, Bob Stephens
stephensdigital@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

Thanks John. I'll check them out.
Click to expand...


Bob
 
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.
 
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Bob Stephens wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good, public access news server?
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I've only had good experiences with Newsguy, http://www.newsguy.com/ .

Best Regards

Jens

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