My local ISP discontinued access to newsgroups as of November 1st. All the while I was wondering why I couldn't connect until I called just now. Therefore, I am hoping many of you good people will offer suggestions on newsgroup clients I can use, other than this Google site.
Thank you
My local ISP discontinued access to newsgroups as of November 1st. All the while I was wondering why I couldn't connect until I called just now. Therefore, I am hoping many of you good people will offer suggestions on newsgroup clients I can use, other than this Google site.
If you are not against using micro$oft to view them, you could uses news.aioe.org Very reliable, and free. No binaries groups.
-- Jim in NC
Individual
Try the Astraweb "pay by download" plan. $10 has kept me going for a few years with more to come.
I thank other suggestions as well and will keep them in mind if something partakes which doesn't work out for me.
I'll second that. I use Thunderbird to view the few newsgroups I do keep up with, but any number of news readers will work just as well.
Matt
Some here have responded by suggesting a paid usenet service, which is an absolutely asinine suggestion without knowing if you are a binary-file downloader - which I'm thinking you're not if you were using your ISP's usenet service.
So going on the assumption that you just read and post to text groups, then there are several free usenet servers. I use aioe.org because no sign-up is required, hence there is no user-name or password hassle to deal with.
You are also asking about a usenet client. I assume you were already using one to access your ISP's server before they shut it down. (?)
I use an old client (netscape communicator 4.79) because it's what I've always used and it's very efficient in it's layout and ease-of-organization of posts and groups and very fast.
Microsoft isn't required. I'm using aioe now running Pan under Linux.
Just a note - you're not looking for a client - a client is what you view newsgroup articles with. You're looking for a provider.
Most ISP's provided complete newsfeeeds - binaries and text, while they were in that business.
Lew
If you were accessing newsgroups through your local ISP until November
1st, there is no reason you cannot continue using the same client you were using before then. What you need now is a *server*.
Microsoft isn't required. I'm using aioe now running Pan under Linux.
******************************* Good to know. For what little I do, outlook was great. Live 2011 sucks, but outlook is not a choice with Windoz 7.-- Jim in NC
I'd like those that use a paid usenet server tell us why they're better than the free servers - assuming they only use them for the text groups that is.
Same here. Pay a few bucks and get service for many years to come. Can't complain about that.
Charter is the only ISP I know of that still furnishes Usenet. Any more?
My vote for best is eternal september
Why is eternal september better than aioe?
I don't mess with username and password with aioe. It gets my vote.
You voted twice :)
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