ISP Wanted

[Lou]

I know this is not the right newsgroup to ask this question, but my ISP will
no longer provide me access to newsnet newsgroups.
I need a low cost ISP that provides access to newsnet newsgroups.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

AT&T FastAccess DSL Service: http://www.bellsouth.com/consumer/inetsrvcs/index.html

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I know this is not the right newsgroup to ask this question, but my ISP will
no longer provide me access to newsnet newsgroups.
I need a low cost ISP that provides access to newsnet newsgroups.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jeff]

I use http://www.toward.com They are excellent

Jeff

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I know this is not the right newsgroup to ask this question, but my ISP will
no longer provide me access to newsnet newsgroups.

You don't need a new ISP, just a free Usenet server.

http://www.newsservers.net/FreeNewsServers.php?offset=30

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I know this is not the right newsgroup to ask this question, but my ISP will
no longer provide me access to newsnet newsgroups.
I need a low cost ISP that provides access to newsnet newsgroups.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Note three things:

1. Hardly any ISPs are available all the over the world. Some are
national, some are local to a particular city, etc. So someone else's
recommendation may be of no use to you at all.

2. Although newsgroups are available through many ISPs, newsgroups are
also available separately. You can subscribe to a newsgroup service
that has nothing to do with your ISP. Some excellent one are available
on a pay basis, such as supernews (http://www.supernews.com), others,
which may carry fewer newsgroups or impose other limitations, are
free. A Google search can provide you with many choices. So although
changing ISPs may be a choice for you, it's not the only choice and
you should investigate the alternatives.

3. These Microsoft newsgroups are all available for free on the
Microsoft news server msnews.microsoft.com, which is the *best* place
to get them, even your ISP's news server also carries them. And just
in case you're not aware of it, Outlook Express, which I see you are
using, lets you easily use multiple news servers.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I know this is not the right newsgroup to ask this question, but my ISP
will no longer provide me access to newsnet newsgroups.
I need a low cost ISP that provides access to newsnet newsgroups.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

I think you'll find that your ISP, like many, has simply stopped maintaining
a UseNet server. They aren't blocking it in any way - you just have to
find an alternate source. ISPs claim to be doing this for legal liability
issues; nobody wants to be caught with child porn on their servers.

If you don't need to post, just read, there are lots of free Usenet servers.
Also, Google will allow you to post to many newsgroups, but AFAIK does not
do binaries.

Otherwise, it's time to comparison shop for Usenet services.

HTH
-pk

 

[soobelle]

You don't need a new ISP, just a free Usenet server.

http://www.newsservers.net/FreeNewsServers.php?offset=30

nntp.aioe.org is a free newsserver (altho' I think there is a posting
limit of approx. 25 per day)

 

[Plato]

I know this is not the right newsgroup to ask this question, but my ISP will
no longer provide me access to newsnet newsgroups.
I need a low cost ISP that provides access to newsnet newsgroups.

http://www.newscene.com/