OT Usenet server?

They got to you too!

Check out astraweb at

Buy the service by the gigabyte. That would either be $10 or $25. Either will last you a long time. At my present rate, many years.

The service is better than what I had before.

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Lew

I've had Individual for a number of years and have been quite happy with it. Their customer service is awesome. At $14/year (10EUR) it isn't bad. No binaries, though.

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in news:4bdcd315$0$14782 $ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:

I'll third it, and point out that you can get to alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking when you want to.

Puckdropper

I use :

I was paying the max - 12 or 13 USD but never got the byte count... backed all the way down - no issue.

Mart> Just got notice from Cox that they will be discontinuing Usenet

What about newsreaders? I'm currently using Thunderbird, and it meets my needs - can't find anything on astraweb about using T-bird. Giganews (which Cox is pushing) does work with the T-bird newsreader.

TIA

Matt

I'm using Giganews at 2.99 a month. I used eternal-september but found it lacking at times, but it was free.

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Take your choice, Thunderbird or OE6, they both work with astraweb.

I moved from Verizon to Astraweb with out a hitch once I figured out how to do it.

Lew

Lew

I've been using Eternal September

Thanks, Lew!

Matt

Carries everything I've looked for, I am pretty heavy on graphics, etc. and I don't come anywhere near the allotted usage. Can't beat it for the $

Try the free service from tera news. A small one time set up fee (was

Mike > Just got notice from Cox that they will be discontinuing Usenet

On Sat, 01 May 2010 20:54:32 -0500, the infamous "Martin H. Eastburn" scrawled the following:

Ditto, and I get ABPW via Teranews, which used to be a $2.99 one-time fee.

-- Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. -- Raymond Lindquist

Ditto. And free is a very good price.

Mike O. wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I'm late here, but would recommend astraweb as a bunch did before me. $10 got me going on June 20 2008. I have used less than 1 GB of the 25 GB I paid for, and that includes abpw.

Han wrote in news:Xns9D6C5186DB451ikkezelf@216.151.153.166:

And, oh yeah, I use X-news as a reader. For just about any newsreader, the only thing you'd need to do is change the url, username and password of the server. Was with Verizon before Andy Cuomo gave them the excuse to unload their news service.

Mike,

I use Easynews, for over 8 years now, which costs me $9.99 a month. I've also used Forte's APN which starts at $2.95 a month for 12GB. Both have worked great for me for years. Good luck, `Casper

I use it to and very happy with its service. Few down times but not for long. Its free and for that price I have no complaints!

While I endorse Astraweb, a couple things I noticed when I switched to them this year. They don't use the header I used to kill cross-posted trolls and they don't honor the SPAM-KiILL cancels (ie you get more SPAM)