ISP ending Usenet service: which free/cheap ones are best?

My ISP (ATT) just sent this:

Does anybody know which free / cheap services are best?

 

Tera News <http://www.teranews.com/>
One-time setup fee of $4, no monthly charge:

 

I've been quite happy with news.individual.net - it costs about one euro
per month.

 

Yes.

 

I received the same thing to day. In response I have removed all yahoo
sites form my computer, including the ATT/yahoo home page.

While this may sound petty, if everyone who was a newsgroup user stopped
using yahoo, which is possible, it would reduce yahoo hits and
consequently the amount they can charge for advertisements.

I just set up with aioe.org, I don't know how it will workout.

 

To me it sounds silly.

Probably not enough to notice -- only a tiny minority still use Usenet.
Regardless, what's the point? Spite?

Usenet is dying. Get over it.

 

Go to alt.free.newsservers and read a bit. There are several choices.

whosbest54
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The flamewars are over...if you want it.

Unofficial rec.audio.opinion Usenet Group Brief User Guide:
http://whosbest54.netau.net/rao.htm

Unofficial rec.music.beatles Usenet Group Brief User Guide:
http://whosbest54.netau.net/rmb.html

 

news.motzarella.org

news.aioe.org

both are free, ok most of the time

 

Seconded.

 

I've tried both of them and also free.teranews.com and textnews.new.cambrium.nl .

But the one I found to be consistently the best was news.albasani.net . They seem to
have lots less downtime and greater retention than most. I also kept the teranews
just for the binaries groups, which albasani doesn't carry.

 

And naturally, you ISP will raise their rates on cue, despite this
service cut-back.

 

The "service cut-back" affects only a tiny minority of subscribers.

 

news.individual.net works well for us.

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OMG, can you autograph my copy of the TTL Cookbook?!

 

Which is why they get away with it. It won't affect the Facebook and
Twitter morons.

 

The following information was correct recently but should be checked at
the web sites of the various providers.

Options for free or low cost news servers.

Individual.net

http://news.individual.net/

Registration required. Price 10 Eros a year. No binaries. No sex
groups. No nonsense. This is a very dependable server for text. Spam
filtering is superior to most other servers I've used.

newsgate. xprivat.org

http://www.x-privat.org/international.php

Registration required. This server in now free. Text and some (few)
binaries. This server is faster than
individual.net but may lack some groups. Its binary completion should
not be depended upon.

Sunsite.dk

http://dotsrc.org/usenet/

Free text only, registration required. This server now only carries
the comp groups.

News.aioe

http://news.aioe.org/

No registration required. Free server. Text only. Limit of 25 posts
per day.

Motzarella.org
http://motzarella.org/

A free server, registration required.

"Apart from de.* (including de.alt.dateien.*) news.motzarella.org
carries the Big 8, alt.* (approx. 8000 groups) and several regional
hierarchies (more than 200).

For tests, information and support for users of news.motzarella.org the
local hierarchy motzarella.* is open to unregistered users, too.
Retention is currently 1 year for de.*, 40 days for alt.* and 30 days
for the Big 8 and other hierarchies."
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Albasani.net

http://albasani.net/

Like Motarella, Albasani.net is free and requires registration. Easy
email registration.

=3FDo you have binary groups?

We have de.alt.dateien.misc and de.alt.dateien.weibsbilder, but none of
the big binary hierarchies.=3F See also
http://albasani.net/technical/cleanfeed.html.en#Binaries_Allowed

Some limits on cross posting across domains.

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Astraweb.com
Paid server with block plans.

http://www.news.astraweb.com/downloadplans.html

We are offering $25 for 110GB! Other plans available.

 

I've been using news.individual.net ("the German server")for years.
It was free until a couple of years ago. I found it complicated to
pay for the first time because they had to be paid in Euros (10 Euro =
US $14.07), but I paid through credit card with ClickandBuy and still
renew through them. I think they take PayPal now.

 

What, you don't have the RTL Cookbook? Watta noob!

 

Like it or not, money talks, and they are the market.

 

Teranews has been a bit flaky recently. I can't get into my free account,
despite the member's area saying my account is still valid. They have
another server at public.teranews which says it does not need authorization,
but I can't connect to that either. Have you had any luck with them in the
last few weeks, John?

Paul