I've used News Individual Net (NIN) for years but have often had problems with their payment service, Pick and Save. I don't use Paypal.
Can anyone suggest another good Usenet news service?
TIA
I've used News Individual Net (NIN) for years but have often had problems with their payment service, Pick and Save. I don't use Paypal.
Can anyone suggest another good Usenet news service?
TIA
KenK wrote in news:XnsA3806AF05D162invalidcom@130.133.4.11:
Sorry, that should be Click and Buy.
I've used eternal-september for a few years. Only a few brief outages. It's free.
Perce
Teranews is also free and they carry better binaries , though there is a US$3.95 setup fee . They do have the occasional outage , so I keep e-s active as a backup .
eternal-september aioe albasani
All free and only text-based.
Check your facts , eternal-september carries a limited number of binary groups - size-limited posts though .
Astraweb
25 GB block account for 10 USD.Credit card, iDeal or .SOFORT for payment.
I like NIN but Click and Buy is a pain in the ass. Their technique of making small charges, in the dollar range, to verify a credit card, means every year I have to deal with MasterCard to explain the odd European charges. I really wish I could just put 15 euros in an envelope and mail it to them.
I've been using them for years after I realized a nntp server half way around the world did a lot better job than my ISP 8 miles away.
teranews is terrible. aside from the occassional outages, they have terrible to no customer service. BTW, for me, they've been unavailable for over a week and even their level2 customer service email bounces.
I just bought a non-expiring 2TB block for $60 from newsgroupdirect.com
On your say-so, I went to their site. They offer a week's free trial, but I could not find a way to order it.
HB
I find tera's services acceptable for the price . Can't bitch much about free ... and as I said , I keep e-s active as a backup for those occasional outages . You must have been subscribed to one of their for-pay plans ... which I considered , not only tera but several others . I decided that the free service meets my needs , and the price is right so ...
I have their free service. I was willing to put up with the occassional glitch, but when their help email bounces, I'm pretty much at my limit.
I never bothered to try email , figgered when it came back up it'd be back up ... but I did check it a couple of times a day , as it is my preferred server .
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