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who is the best usenet provider?? someone please help i think i am being
cheated or swindled!

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> who is the best usenet provider??

The one that fits your particular needs.

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> who is the best usenet provider?? someone please help i think i am being
> cheated or swindled!

not surprising-- given your approach to resolving it....

can someone please give me a real answer, i just need a friend or a tid bit
of help

<> wrote in message
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> who is the best usenet provider?? someone please help i think i am being
> cheated or swindled!
>
And so are all of us (TINU).

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> who is the best usenet provider?? someone please help i think i am
> being cheated or swindled!

You have different kinds of usenet needs depending upon what you are
doing. When you are texting, you need to be able to upload, whereas
when you are downloading binaries, you don't. There are free
newsservers, some of which don't allow uploading/posting. There are
free newsservers, some of which don't carry any binaries.

When you are text newsing, you don't need very many gigs, so you can buy
a very very cheap block of non-expiring gigs which would last you
forever on a commercial NSP. When you are downloading binaries, it is
more likely that you will need more gigs, so how much it costs is
determined by where you get your gigs.

If you download mostly from free newsservers, you don't need to buy as
many gigs. If you use a newsreader which can access multiple
newsservers at a time, it isn't as inconvenient when your particular
newsreader is incomplete. The more you spend on a newsserver, if you
spend wisely, then the more you get in terms of redundancy and completes
and retention for the binaries.

One newsgroup that is worth a little bit of information but not much is
alt.free.newsservers. There are other newsgroups which compare the
binary 'condition' of various commercials NSPs.

A useful website for free newsservers is Sebastien Willemijns. Another
is the index of free newsservers. Some commercial NSPs which sell
economical non-expiring blocks are astaweb, usenet-news, and octanews.

http://www.nntpeng.willemijns.com/ Links and F.A.Q About Open Nntp
Servers
http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en free newsserver index.
http://www.news.astraweb.com/ Astraweb Usenet News Server
http://usenet-news.net/index1.php?url=home Usenet-News
http://www.octanews.com/ New Block Pricing

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Mike Easter

<> wrote in message
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> can someone please give me a real answer, i just need a friend or a tid
> bit
> of help

get a dog...or rent a hooker.

wrote:
> can someone please give me a real answer, i just need a friend or a tid bit
> of help

If you go through a lot of downloads think about Giganews. If your needs
are not that great, http://news.astraweb.com/ is good for nearly two
years for me for $10.

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:06:36 GMT, wrote:

>can someone please give me a real answer, i just need a friend or a tid bit
>of help

It's obvious you haven't listened to ANY of the advice that's been
provided to you, so what's the point?
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Mike Easter wrote:
> wrote:
>> who is the best usenet provider?? someone please help i think i am
>> being cheated or swindled!
>
> You have different kinds of usenet needs depending upon what you are
> doing. When you are texting, you need to be able to upload, whereas
> when you are downloading binaries, you don't. There are free
> newsservers, some of which don't allow uploading/posting. There are
> free newsservers, some of which don't carry any binaries.
>
> When you are text newsing, you don't need very many gigs, so you can buy
> a very very cheap block of non-expiring gigs which would last you
> forever on a commercial NSP. When you are downloading binaries, it is
> more likely that you will need more gigs, so how much it costs is
> determined by where you get your gigs.
>
> If you download mostly from free newsservers, you don't need to buy as
> many gigs. If you use a newsreader which can access multiple
> newsservers at a time, it isn't as inconvenient when your particular
> newsreader is incomplete. The more you spend on a newsserver, if you
> spend wisely, then the more you get in terms of redundancy and completes
> and retention for the binaries.
>
> One newsgroup that is worth a little bit of information but not much is
> alt.free.newsservers. There are other newsgroups which compare the
> binary 'condition' of various commercials NSPs.
>
> A useful website for free newsservers is Sebastien Willemijns. Another
> is the index of free newsservers. Some commercial NSPs which sell
> economical non-expiring blocks are astaweb, usenet-news, and octanews.
>
> http://www.nntpeng.willemijns.com/ Links and F.A.Q About Open Nntp
> Servers
> http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en free newsserver index.
> http://www.news.astraweb.com/ Astraweb Usenet News Server
> http://usenet-news.net/index1.php?url=home Usenet-News
> http://www.octanews.com/ New Block Pricing

Mike, your patience with this Google Grouper Emulator is making me dizzy
and my hair is starting to bleed.


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