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?
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Martin
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Martin ©¿©¬ @REMOVETHIS.plus.com wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm thinking of migrating to AOL broadband

Are you sure, sir?

I have heard people that are displeased with aol....

ask around before you do that...


"Martin ©?©¬ @REMOVETHIS.plus.com" <Martin ©¿©¬ @REMOVETHIS.plus.com> wrote
in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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?
> --
>
> Martin
> ©¿©¬

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 19:15:39 +0100 'Martin ©¿©¬'
posted this onto alt.comp.freeware:

>Hi
>
>I'm thinking of migrating to AOL broadband and apparently they don't
>have a news server

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?

Plenty of fairly cheap 3rd party NSPs:
Supernews
Forte
EasyNews
etc
etc

hummingbird <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> 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.



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).


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hummingbird wrote:

> Even though I'm a fellow sufferer at PlusNet, I still wouldn't move
> to AOL; they're a PITA big time.

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?

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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James UK

Thank you James for all the information
Now to investigate



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Regards
Martin
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Martin©¿©¬@REMOVETHIS.plus.com wrote:
> Thank you James for all the information
> Now to investigate
>
>
>
> --
>
> Regards
> Martin
> ©¿©¬


Thanks James.

James UK wrote:
> leapt out of the bath and screamed "EUREKA!" before typing in
> alt.comp.freeware:
>
> > Any good third party news servers about?
>
> 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 UK


There is also teranews.