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.
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.
has been very good. It's about $14/yr and has an excellent spam filter. Almost all the spam I see is from people answering it. I rarely see the original. No binaries, though.
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.
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.
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