Any recommendations for free text only news group servers which allow posting, as Zen are closing their service in a few months. Alternatively are these groups available via a different route, or are there better forums
news.individual.net
Not free. But cheap. And good.
+1 And they're good at filtering out cr*p. Ten euros a year isn't free, but it's close.
Albasani.
Andy
Yep, individual is good.
If you want free, then
It's all I use these days since we decommisioned our usenet server at the university - sad really, it was one of (or maybe *the*) first usenet services in UK :-(
aioe.org
Very good, I don't see any spam unless some berk quotes and/or responds to it.
Well worth E10 for the spam removal alone.
Not sure how up to date the list is now:
(feel free to tweak if you find more)
No-one has mentioned eternal-september.
I used to use it for some groups, it's good as a freebie, but the outages became a bit too frequent, so I switched to giganews for everything.
Albasani, Eternal September. AO to name but three I have used. some do like to restrict the number of postings in a session for some reason, aybe its anti spam dunno. Brian
+1 been impressed with them. Better than Eternal September.
Another vote for news.individual.net.
If you really need free then there's always news.aioe.org.
I use aioe and news eternal september - both free. Neither carries all the groups I read - hence needing both. But you might be ok with just one. My software allows both to be used without duplicates - so if one happens to be down (rare) it will just use the other. Both seem ok spam wise.
news.eternal-september.org is free, as is nntp.aioe.org
I am a bit pissed with that. I only went with Zen as they used to do Binaries then they stopped that. Now they are stopping all new groups. the trouble is how do you change ISPs when you are using their email address.
Kevin
Why on earth would you tie yourself to one ISP by becoming "dependant" on their email service?? I was a zen customer for many years but never used my zen email address.
Tim
Well, quite.
And why would using one company for internet access and the same company for mail access mean you have to use the same company for usenet access...?
Sadly you have found out that was a mistake.
Set yourself up a personal domain using 123 Reg (I have no affiliation) and as part of that you can create one or more email addresses based on that domain and forward to a "real" email provider, be it Zen or Gmail.
Spend the next few months telling everyone - and then drop Zen.
Correct.
Personally I don't trust that Uncle Sam won't be watching, google certainly are and selling "anonymised" data sets. Except that by combining such data sets identities can be deduced.
Get your own domain name and either run your own mail server or use the possibly free mail service that comes with the domain name. Domain names are very cheap, a .co.uk can be had for £4.18/year (inc VAT) from 123-reg.co.uk, this gives a bit of web space and mail forwarding. Other providers are avaialble but I'd not touch anything to do with fasthosts with some one elses barge pole.
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