I need a new news server. My local one misses too much stuff lately. I remember seeing a post here a while back that identified some decent open/free news servers. Can anyone point me to some?
Scott
Validated Software Corp.
OT: open news servers?
Oct 19, 2004
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Hi Scott, I've been pretty happy with They have two levels of service, and the free (nominal setup fee: $3.95) service has been more than enough for my purposes. They carry a very large list of newsgroups, and allow posting even with the free service. They've only been down…
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Hi Scott,
I've been pretty happy with
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. They have two levels of service, and the free (nominal setup fee: $3.95) service has been more than enough for my purposes. They carry a very large list of newsgroups, and allow posting even with the free service. They've only been down about twice in the past 4 months, and both times were for less than a day. I found many of the other free services had only a short list of newsgroups or didn't allow posting.
Rufus
news.individual.net
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is free and probably the best in Europe.
Frank
news.individual.net -- see
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for details. Free, reliable and well-propagated.
(I receive news from two upstream servers, BT's local one and individual.net - and my local server posts upstream via individual.net)
pete
pete@fenelon.com "there's no room for enigmas in built-up areas"
Pete Fenelon wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@fenelon.com:
Been very happy with it, but, be aware, it does not carry any binary newsgroups, and will filter out binary posts for the most part.
Richard
CBFalconer wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com:
Agreed, I am extremely happy with it, but some might not be.
Richard
Thanks to all for the suggestions.
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