I have been very happy with GigaNews and have heard nothing but good things about SuperNews. IMO, just stay FAR away for MegaNetNews (MegaNONews is more like it).
That's what I'm using, I've had them for over a year and have had very good luck with them.
Stay away from Teranews. Both the free and pay services. That applies whether you are Kanukistani or SomewhereElseistani. Unreliable service (at least 8 months ago this was true), poor technical support, binary groups were mostly unreadable through Direcway broadband, but worked through concentric dial-up. Don't know whose problem it was, just know I couldn't read binary (abpw) postiings.
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We maintain Sympatico dial up to maintain old email -- but that's all.
WIFI Broadband 100MHz or better is a few months away yet... (community=20 owned and operated)
There is no effective Rogers competition yet -- we are in the sticks in=20 North York Region of Ontario -- bordering Brock County -- nothing here=20 but gophers bears and a few igloos.
--=20 Will R. Jewel Boxes and Wood Art
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----------- Please be advised that Rogers is discontinuing its Usenet service as of=20 December 15, 2005.
Internet technology is constantly changing. Usenet was one of the=20 earliest forms of user discussion on the Internet, but today has largely =
been replaced by blogs, instant messaging, personal web pages and other=20 tools. As a result, fewer and fewer people are accessing Usenet.
Therefore, Rogers has decided to stop providing Usenet service to Rogers =
Yahoo! customers.
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To stay at the leading edge of new technology, we=92ve introduced new and= =20 better ways to communicate =96 all available at no additional charge to=20 Rogers Yahoo! customers:
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with a continuing desire to read or post Usenet text messages=20 or who wish to access Usenet binary groups can subscribe to third-party=20 Usenet service providers such as Giganews (our supplier up until the=20 point when we discontinue Usenet) who offer a full Usenet service on a=20 paid basis:
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again, thank you for your loyalty to Rogers and your continued=20 business.
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forgot to mention, if you spend an afternoon down tthis road, you'll find free suppliers, notes about best software. Some are text only, some are html (a different animal I've never seen) - can anyone expain this? Is it possible to use rogers server to read news with IE, not OE after midnight , some are this and that...
today I typed in usenet, news, giganews into the newgroup name filter search and read all the info. Theres about 75 minutes left.
Switched to Supernews after Earthlink and Charter quit supporting newsgroups in my area. So far, quite good. Seven bucks a month to read all the wonderful stuff (and a great deal of drivel) from you folks: priceless. zorp, jo4hn
Meganewsservers -- they operate a number of services under the 'mega-{something}' labels, and, unfortunately, are _really_ lacking in the required skill-sets for those services. I _left_ my prior ISP *because* they switched to "meganews" for their news server service.
A year or so ago, Easynews was having some problems -- news volume had gotten ahead of their system capabilities, and they were trying to play catch up. Which is a somewhat difficult problem, because 'adequate' resources is a moving target.
They _were_ going to get things back under control, it was just a question of how long it was going to take. Until they got back on top of things, Until such time as they do/did get things under control, I couldn't recommend them in good faith, to anyone. I *don't* know -- haven't kept up with -- their current situation, but I strongly suspect that they are 'back in good form'
SuperNews is the 'class act' of the bunch, and is the 'industry standard' against which everybody else is measured -- *especially* with regard to their ability to suppress *almost*all* of the 'spam' and similar pollution of the newsgroups.
I've used Newsguy and SuperNews, they're both first-rate in my experience. No experience with GigaNews or EasyNews, but aside from the _old_ info on EasyNews' tech difficulties, I've heard nothing but _good_stuff_ about both of them.
I haven't heard any body who had *anything*good* to say about Meganewsservers, on the other hand.
I would have preferred Easynews -- but the billing doesn't work for=20 business purposes. Supernews or GigaNews I guess. Rogers should shut off =
any hour/minute/second now. I'll get every byte I can -- considering=20 they just reduced the value of the service by about 20% per year and=20 will be collecting the same money. :-(
You have a slightly different take than these guys -- but close enough=20
-- eh?
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For almost a year, I used the unlimited news service of Agent Premium News who are the makers of Forte Agent, the newsreader. At approximately $20 CA a month and with their much higher bitrate than the metered news service provided by Rogers, I'll be going back to them.
It doesn't bother me much that Rogers is discontinuing Usenet, but what does exasperate me is that they're doing it while continuing to charge exactly the same monthly fee. I'm currently looking around for a suitable DSL replacement at which point I'll tell them to F off. And now that TV signals are available from Sympatico through the phone wires, I may get around to dumping their cable TV service too.
Newsfeeds? multiple server setup might be a little confusing to the old-school Agent user who is accustomed to just one server ? I know because I was that guy. But Newsfeeds really hits a grand slam with their multiple servers. Once I took the time to get settled in with Newsbin Pro and my new Newsfeeds premium plus account, I found that my speeds had more than doubled, the file retention was awesome, and the completion perfect.
I have Nesbin Pro. Because of these two reasons, so far, I think I'll be looking into this. I have used Agent. I am using OE at the moment. For one thing, yenc is automatic with things liek Newsbin Pro.
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