Newgroup Suppliers

John Silverman · 2014-05-24T01:33:08+00:00

Teksavvy is starting to play games with the newsserver so it's time to find another supplier. Here's a list of some of them: All pretty much the same. Expensive. There is one with an interesting option. NewsDemon offers a block account that never expires. When you use it up, you simply buy another block. They start at $2.00 for 10 gigabytes and go up to $87.00 for 1,000 GB: I don't download anything from the binaries, and just monitor a few newsgroups like sed. My archives go back to 2007 and hold about 100 megabytes of text. (I lost the rest in an unfortunate disk crash.) I probably save less than 10% of the articles I download, so the total BW is perhaps 1GB. That's about 1000 / 7 = 143 MB/yr. This means a 10GB block may last for 10e9 / 143e6 = 70 years. I don't think I'll use it up, but that's a pretty good for an investment of $2.00. If you download movies and such, you can check the status of your account by logging on at If you are running low, just send them some more money. That way, you just pay for what you use and never have the problem of trying to figure out which of the regular services to get. They take Paypal so you don't have to give them your credit card info. When you first register, they block posting to the newsgroups. Just open a ticket and request they unblock posting, and you can be active in 1/2 hr or so. I found the access and download speed is equal to Teksavvy. Both can be very fast or slow depending on the web. Altogether I'm very pleased with this option. No more hassling with Teksavvy support about killing the newsgroups.

May 24, 2014 21 Replies

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Clifford Heath 12 years ago

Ok, thanks - that wasn't clear from the LTSpice documentation.

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Martin Brown 12 years ago

Oh. That could be rather fundamental if your allocated IP address in the UK appears to belong to the French part of their operation.

Regards, Martin Brown

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