OT: Newsgroup server reccomendations

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Alex

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• Oct 17, 2005

• #1

Right, I've finally had it up to here with NTL's bloody newsgroup
servers. It looks like i'm gonna have to fork out for a subscription
to a reliable NNTP service. Reccomendations please?

Alex

 

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Alex

Guest

• Oct 17, 2005

• #2

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:46:53 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Right, I've finally had it up to here with NTL's bloody newsgroup
>servers. It looks like i'm gonna have to fork out for a subscription
>to a reliable NNTP service. Reccomendations please?
>
>Alex

P.S. I don't need/want binary access, text only, thanks

 

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Will Wilkinson

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #3

In message <[email protected]>, Alex
<[email protected]> writes
>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:46:53 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>Right, I've finally had it up to here with NTL's bloody newsgroup
>>servers. It looks like i'm gonna have to fork out for a subscription
>>to a reliable NNTP service. Reccomendations please?
>>
>>Alex
>
>P.S. I don't need/want binary access, text only, thanks
news.individual.net <http://news.individual.net/> 10 euros/year,
regarded as one of the best on the net for text only newsgroups. I used
to use them, just haven't got round to subscribing since the service
moved from being free earlier this year.

HTH

Will
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Paul Tasker

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #4

Hi.

There was a free server some time ago. It had a "de" suffix. I used it
instead of ntl, but lost it when I change pc's. Wonder if anyone knows which
one I am referring to?

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Regards

Paul Tasker

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Remove the BLIP

 

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'T'

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #5

Googlegroups?

'T'
"Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:46:53 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>Right, I've finally had it up to here with NTL's bloody newsgroup
>>servers. It looks like i'm gonna have to fork out for a subscription
>>to a reliable NNTP service. Reccomendations please?
>>
>>Alex
>
> P.S. I don't need/want binary access, text only, thanks

 

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Pacman

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #6

"Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Right, I've finally had it up to here with NTL's bloody newsgroup
> servers. It looks like i'm gonna have to fork out for a subscription
> to a reliable NNTP service. Reccomendations please?
>
A free one that I use is aioe.cjb.net - quite fast and reliable, haven't had
any problems with it recently. And it allows posting too. A lot of the
free ones are browse-only.

HTH


--
--
Thanks,
Paul
--------------------
1992 RRC Vogue SE

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #7

On or around Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:45:49 +0000 (UTC), "'T'" <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>Googlegroups?
>

's crap.
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Satisfying: Satisfy your inner child by eating ten tubes of Smarties
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

 

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Austin Shackles

Guest

• Oct 18, 2005

• #8

On or around Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:05:38 +0000 (UTC), Will Wilkinson
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>In message <[email protected]>, Alex
><[email protected]> writes
>>On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:46:53 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Right, I've finally had it up to here with NTL's bloody newsgroup
>>>servers. It looks like i'm gonna have to fork out for a subscription
>>>to a reliable NNTP service. Reccomendations please?
>>>
>>>Alex
>>
>>P.S. I don't need/want binary access, text only, thanks
>news.individual.net <http://news.individual.net/> 10 euros/year,
>regarded as one of the best on the net for text only newsgroups. I used
>to use them, just haven't got round to subscribing since the service
>moved from being free earlier this year.

I use 'em and paid me 10 EU, been using it for years. There's also a polish
one, supplied by www.gazeta.pl for which I've got signup instructions
somewhere if you don't speak polish.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Satisfying: Satisfy your inner child by eating ten tubes of Smarties
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

 

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Austin Shackles

Guest

• Oct 18, 2005

• #9

On or around Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:33:20 GMT, "Paul Tasker"
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Hi.
>
>There was a free server some time ago. It had a "de" suffix. I used it
>instead of ntl, but lost it when I change pc's. Wonder if anyone knows which
>one I am referring to?

what used to be news.cis.dfn.de, which is now news.individual.net.

--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Satisfying: Satisfy your inner child by eating ten tubes of Smarties
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

 

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Mother

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #10

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:01:05 +0100, Austin Shackles
<[email protected]> wrote:

> <http://news.individual.net/>

>>regarded as one of the best on the net for text only newsgroups.


>I use 'em and paid me 10 EU, been using it for years.


Fast, reliable, cheap.


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of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005

 

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GbH

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #11

In news:[email protected],
Austin Shackles <[email protected]> blithered:
> On or around Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:05:38 +0000 (UTC), Will Wilkinson
> <[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>
>> In message <[email protected]>, Alex
>> <[email protected]> writes
>>> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:46:53 GMT, Alex <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Right, I've finally had it up to here with NTL's bloody newsgroup
>>>> servers. It looks like i'm gonna have to fork out for a
>>>> subscription to a reliable NNTP service. Reccomendations please?
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>
>>> P.S. I don't need/want binary access, text only, thanks
>> news.individual.net <http://news.individual.net/> 10 euros/year,
>> regarded as one of the best on the net for text only newsgroups. I
>> used to use them, just haven't got round to subscribing since the
>> service moved from being free earlier this year.
>
> I use 'em and paid me 10 EU, been using it for years. There's also a
> polish one, supplied by www.gazeta.pl for which I've got signup
> instructions somewhere if you don't speak polish.

No Polish, but I'm fluent in bollix and gibberish.

--
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If at first you don't succeed,
maybe skydiving's not for you!

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #12

On or around Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:21:17 +0100, Mother <"@ {mother}
@"@101fc.net> enlightened us thusly:

>On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:01:05 +0100, Austin Shackles
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> <http://news.individual.net/>
>
>>>regarded as one of the best on the net for text only newsgroups.
>
>
>>I use 'em and paid me 10 EU, been using it for years.
>
>
>Fast, reliable, cheap.

'zackly. I can't actually recall the last downtime from their end.
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Academy, 19 June 1879.

 

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Paul Tasker

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• Oct 18, 2005

• #13

Austin..... You're a star!

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Paul Tasker

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Remove the BLIP

 

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Graham Carter

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• Oct 20, 2005

• #14

Thank you thank you thank you.

I have been trying to find a free NNTP server that allows posting since my
ISP here in Zim "lost" their server and have been unable to fix it. At last
I can get my fix of decent information about the lanfdrover world. Thank
you to aioe.cjb.net as well!

Cheers!
Graham Carter
Harare
Zimbabwe




"Pacman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Alex" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Right, I've finally had it up to here with NTL's bloody newsgroup
> > servers. It looks like i'm gonna have to fork out for a subscription
> > to a reliable NNTP service. Reccomendations please?
> >
> A free one that I use is aioe.cjb.net - quite fast and reliable, haven't
had
> any problems with it recently. And it allows posting too. A lot of the
> free ones are browse-only.
>
> HTH
>
>
> --
> --
> Thanks,
> Paul
> --------------------
> 1992 RRC Vogue SE
>
>