Free News Servers - do they exist?

[Karen]

I just spent what seems like hours looking for FREE news servers where we
can read *and post*. There don't seem to be any. The ones that advertise
as free want to charge you $19.00 a month or more once on their website.
Can anyone recommend a good free News Server that can be posted to?????

Thanks

Karen........

 

[Podz]

I just spent what seems like hours looking for FREE news servers where we
can read *and post*. There don't seem to be any. The ones that advertise
as free want to charge you $19.00 a month or more once on their website.
Can anyone recommend a good free News Server that can be posted to?????

Thanks

Karen........

http://news.individual.de/

Register to get your details - takes a couple of days, esp at the
weekend as it is not automated.
Been using this for a few years now - an excellent service.

P.

 

[dszady]

I just spent what seems like hours looking for FREE news servers where we
can read *and post*. There don't seem to be any. The ones that advertise
as free want to charge you $19.00 a month or more once on their website.
Can anyone recommend a good free News Server that can be posted to?????

Thanks

Karen........

http://news.individual.net/
"Registration and use of this NetNews service are free of charge. This
server is operated by the computer center of Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany."
It is my backup server and a lot of people use it for primary. You have to
register with a "real" email address to get your username and password.
You might have to wait a couple of days for it but it is worth it.

 

[Zo]

http://news.individual.net/
"Registration and use of this NetNews service are free of charge. This
server is operated by the computer center of Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany."
It is my backup server and a lot of people use it for primary. You have to
register with a "real" email address to get your username and password.
You might have to wait a couple of days for it but it is worth it.

Takes a little more than a couple of days. I emailed my request back on the
14th of April and finally got my response on 23rd of April. So I would say a
week to ten days is more like it.
(The reason given is that all request are being handled manually). But as
stated, it is worth the wait.

Zo

 

[Michael Rainey]

I just spent what seems like hours looking for FREE news servers where we
can read *and post*. There don't seem to be any. The ones that advertise
as free want to charge you $19.00 a month or more once on their website.
Can anyone recommend a good free News Server that can be posted to?????

Thanks

Karen........

This is what I use - and I'm posting to you! Took about a week for them to
get back to me after I signed up. It's free.


http://news.individual.net/

 

[Karen]

http://news.individual.de/

Register to get your details - takes a couple of days, esp at the
weekend as it is not automated.
Been using this for a few years now - an excellent service.

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Thanks I will definitely try this one.

Karen.....

 

[Karen]

http://news.individual.net/
"Registration and use of this NetNews service are free of charge. This
server is operated by the computer center of Freie Universität Berlin,
Germany."
It is my backup server and a lot of people use it for primary. You have to
register with a "real" email address to get your username and password.
You might have to wait a couple of days for it but it is worth it.

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I'll sign up for this one as well. I need them more for back-ups when our
regular ISP supplied server is down, than as primaries.

I hope they allow "tweaking" of our e-mail address when we post, as one we
had in the past did not. We were soon smothering in spam.

Karen.......

 

[Karen]

This is what I use - and I'm posting to you! Took about a week for them to
get back to me after I signed up. It's free.
http://news.individual.net/

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Thanks )))

Karen

 

[dadiOH]

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I'll sign up for this one as well. I need them more for back-ups
when our regular ISP supplied server is down, than as primaries.

Don't bother, it is the same as the other.
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I hope they allow "tweaking" of our e-mail address when we post, as
one we had in the past did not.

They don't.
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We were soon smothering in spam.

There is such a thing as web mail...

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[jason]

Karen wrote:

They don't.
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Karen, they allow you to use (e-mail address removed) as your e-mail address. Check
out the FAQ, that's where I learned about it.

 

[realtwo]

You can visit the following two sites to search for free news servers
that carry the newsgroups you want. You have a good chance to find some
servers that allow posting. But there is no guarantee for propagation of
postings. So check your posted message later at another server or
Google.

http://www.newzbot.com/search.php

http://www.kunden-viosys.de/cgi-bin/874/vio.matrix?seite=en_frames.html