OT Usenet server?

[Mike O.]

Just got notice from Cox that they will be discontinuing Usenet service. Of course the price didn't go down but now I need to find another Usenet provider. I don't download binaries (other than a few random APBW pics) but need something affordable. Just wondering what you guys are using and if you like it.

Thanks,

Mike O.

[Lee Michaels]

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.

[Lew Hodgett]

-------------------------------------- Works for me.

Lew

[krw]

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.

[Puckdropper]

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in news:4bdcd315$0$14782 $ [e-mail]:

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

Puckdropper

[Martin H. Eastburn]

I use :

they change me less than $3 a month for all of the text I want...

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

[Matt]

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

[Ed Pawlowski]

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

[Lew Hodgett]

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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

[Doug Miller]

I've been using Eternal September

ever since AT&T dropped Usenet (about a year now, I think). No complaints, really. Once in a while (perhaps an hour at a time, four or five weeks apart) there are problems connecting, but I can live with that. And they do a great job of filtering spam. And it's free. No binaries, but, hey, you said you don't really need that.

[Matt]

Thanks, Lew!

Matt

[Dddudley]

with them for ~ 22 months. $2.95/mo gets you 5.0 gb per month and it ROLLS OVER. My account shows that I've purchased a total of 110.0 gb and have used 63.6 gb and have a balance remaining of 46.4gb.

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 $

[Michael Kenefick]

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

3.95).

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

[Larry Jaques]

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

[Rumple Stiltskin]

Ditto. And free is a very good price.

[Han]

Mike O. wrote in news: [e-mail]:

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]

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.

[Casper]

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

[Evodawg]

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!

[Ralph E Lindberg]

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)