OT News.Individual.NET not free soon

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News.Individual.NET is going to charge for it newsgroup service.
It is only 10 EUR, see http://news.individual.net/

But is there any other free newsgroup servers.
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Yes, there are. Extracting from the other four threads in this group
about this subject:

<http://groups-beta.google.com> - web-based access

<http://www.x-privat.org/index.php> - apparently for Italian residents
only, has a limited total number of connections

<http://www.yottanews.com/> - read-only (no posting) for free accounts,
tied to IP address (so useless for dialup)

Others have been mentioned, but they aren't completely free.
 
Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time continuum
Others have been mentioned, but they aren't completely free
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No posting/No binaries except on subscription, but free most text NGs (NOT
acf.discussion unless some brave souls want to ask more of a freebie)

freetext.usenetserver.com
 
bob-au said:
But is there any other free newsgroup servers.
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Presumably you mean other than web based like Google. Well, there is
TeraNews...it has a one time setup fee of $3.95 and is decent. You
could check these too...
http://www.newzbot.com/


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Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time continuum


No posting/No binaries except on subscription, but free most text NGs (NOT
acf.discussion unless some brave souls want to ask more of a freebie)

freetext.usenetserver.com
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I got a "connection refused" error when I tried that URL, so I didn't
list it...
 
Begin I alt.comp.freeware, sa Rob Kelk utan att tänka först:
I got a "connection refused" error when I tried that URL, so I didn't
list it...
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Should be free-text.usenetserver.com - it works for me. But as been
mentioned, it's read-only...

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den verkliga pärsen börjar när gårdagens
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Livewire said:
I sometimes use teranews.com, which has a one-off $3.95 set-up charge
but is then free.
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Yeah, I've used tera for years, earlier on they had problems where the
service wouldn't be available for a stretch of time (intermittently for a
few days at the worst point) but recently it has been stable, and for a one
time charge then free it is not bad at all. Of course, it IS a 50MB per day
limit for the free account, so if you're looking to download binaries you'd
want to consider something else.
 
I sometimes use teranews.com, which has a one-off $3.95 set-up charge
but is then free.
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You say that you "sometimes use". Can you elaborate on that?

In other words, why don't you use it all of the time?

Thanks.

Jack
 
dadiOH said:
Presumably you mean other than web based like Google. Well, there is
TeraNews...it has a one time setup fee of $3.95 and is decent. You
could check these too...
http://www.newzbot.com/
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Thanks for the tip about TeraNews. I just signed up ($3.95) and I've got to
say I'm *really* impressed with the speed. I'll miss
News.Individual.Net--it was terrific, but I also like the idea of having
binaries for the first time.
 
Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time continuum
Should be free-text.usenetserver.com - it works for me
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One must be a redirect to another address. freetext.usenetserver.com works
for me. Obviously both work so perhaps they have some limit on the number
of free?text users logged on at any given time, or they divert bandwidth to
paid users. Does that 2nd bit make sense?
 
J. Yazel said:
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You say that you "sometimes use". Can you elaborate on that?

In other words, why don't you use it all of the time?
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Not sure who you're asking, I think I said something similar.

I use a paid service for binaries primarily, which is a gig a day. As tera
is only 50MB and free I prefer to get my money's worth on the paid service.
Sometimes when I hit the gig mark tho I flip over to tera and continue on.

I suppose for newsgroup threads from now on I'll just use tera, that alone
will be a chunk of MB daily.
 
Filthy McNasty said:
Using at least one appendage, the entity known in this space-time continuum


One must be a redirect to another address. freetext.usenetserver.com works
for me. Obviously both work so perhaps they have some limit on the number
of free?text users logged on at any given time, or they divert bandwidth to
paid users. Does that 2nd bit make sense?
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Works here (for reading) too. free-text.usenetserver.com points to
freetext.usenetserver.com.

I'd guess you are right about there being a limit on users, I doubt
the free services are going to be able to cope with all the
individual.net users, plus there must be quite a few users from AOL
and one or two other ISPs that have recently withdrawn
usenet access signing up to free services.

If I didn't have an alternative from my ISP (all be it inferior)
I'd consider the reliability of individual net well worth the
small fee.
 
Thip said:
Thanks for the tip about TeraNews. I just signed up ($3.95) and I've
got to say I'm *really* impressed with the speed. I'll miss
News.Individual.Net--it was terrific, but I also like the idea of
having binaries for the first time.
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It won't do you much good with binaries if you don't go for a pay
account. The daily free amount won't give you much more than headers.

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
Not sure who you're asking, I think I said something similar.

I use a paid service for binaries primarily, which is a gig a day. As tera
is only 50MB and free I prefer to get my money's worth on the paid service.
Sometimes when I hit the gig mark tho I flip over to tera and continue on.

I suppose for newsgroup threads from now on I'll just use tera, that alone
will be a chunk of MB daily.
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My ISP's news server only covers limited groups. I use teranews for
other groups. Thinking about it, I guess I might as well use teranews
all of the time.
 
Not sure who you're asking, I think I said something similar.

I use a paid service for binaries primarily, which is a gig a day. As tera
is only 50MB and free I prefer to get my money's worth on the paid service.
Sometimes when I hit the gig mark tho I flip over to tera and continue on.

I suppose for newsgroup threads from now on I'll just use tera, that alone
will be a chunk of MB daily.
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Unfortunately this is going to become a bigger issue now that AOL has
discontinued their access to Usenet. NIN was the most oft recommended
server but now comes the news that they will stop their free access.


Be sure to answer my AOL Poll!
http://members.aol.com/Roseb44170/aol.htm
 
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http://www.arcor.de/mps/xnews/treff_newsgr_01.jsp
Deutschsprachiger Newsgroup-Anbieter; kostenlos, auch über
"Forte Agent" oder "Outlook Express" etc. abrufbar.

Als Einwahldaten dienen die Daten des zu erstellenden
E-Mail-Kontos bei Arcor, wobei die Postleitzahl mit der
gewählten Anschrift übereinstimmen muß.

Einstellungshilfen im Arcor-Hilfeprogramm.

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Werner Müller said:
http://www.arcor.de/mps/xnews/treff_newsgr_01.jsp
Deutschsprachiger Newsgroup-Anbieter; kostenlos, auch über
"Forte Agent" oder "Outlook Express" etc. abrufbar.
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"Eine Anmeldung aus dem Ausland ist derzeit aus organisatorischen
Gründen leider nicht möglich. Es können sich nur Kunden registrieren,
die einen Wohnsitz in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland haben."

I.e. you have to live in Germany, which you should have mentioned.

Querulantus
 
"Eine Anmeldung aus dem Ausland ist derzeit aus organisatorischen
Gründen leider nicht möglich. Es können sich nur Kunden registrieren,
die einen Wohnsitz in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland haben."

I.e. you have to live in Germany, which you should have mentioned.

Querulantus
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Dann einfach einen Proxy aus Deutschland einsetzen und eine
glaubhafte Adresse "kreieren".

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