best public NNTP Usenet server?
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From: OhioGuy on 28 Mar 2007 20:41 Anybody know of a good public NNTP Usenet server that allows posting? I'm currently using aoie.org, and it is often down for 3 or more days at a time.
From: Paul on 29 Mar 2007 11:21 "OhioGuy" <none(a)none.net> wrote in news:eugl9b$qtn$1(a)aioe.org: > Anybody know of a good public NNTP Usenet server that allows > posting? I'm > currently using aoie.org, and it is often down for 3 or more > days at a time. Read through the free news servers group if you haven't yet.
From: Dave on 29 Mar 2007 15:19 "OhioGuy" <none(a)none.net> wrote in message news:eugl9b$qtn$1(a)aioe.org... > Anybody know of a good public NNTP Usenet server that allows posting? > I'm currently using aoie.org, and it is often down for 3 or more days at a > time. > www.readfreenews.net but, it is prone to being down for long periods of time, also
From: Zuke on 29 Mar 2007 23:38 On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Paul wrote: > "OhioGuy" <none(a)none.net> wrote in news:eugl9b$qtn$1(a)aioe.org: > >> Anybody know of a good public NNTP Usenet server that allows >> posting? I'm >> currently using aoie.org, and it is often down for 3 or more >> days at a time. > > Read through the free news servers group if you haven't yet. > I echo that. None of them seem to work for very long. Seems like I have to go looking for a new one every six months or so.
From: Michael Black on 30 Mar 2007 00:06
Zuke (me(a)privacy.net) writes: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Paul wrote: > >> "OhioGuy" <none(a)none.net> wrote in news:eugl9b$qtn$1(a)aioe.org: >> >>> Anybody know of a good public NNTP Usenet server that allows >>> posting? I'm >>> currently using aoie.org, and it is often down for 3 or more >>> days at a time. >> >> Read through the free news servers group if you haven't yet. >> > > I echo that. None of them seem to work for very long. Seems like > I have to go looking for a new one every six months or so. > That's what happens when you are cheap. They use up resources, but the person or people running them aren't getting income. So they have to pay not only for the hardware, but for the feed. The more people that use any given newsserver, the more the cost goes up. A free newsserver may be fine in obscurity with a relative handful of users, but once that news travels, they get swamped and can't live up to the demand. You can go back a decade and that's generally what happens with outright "free" services on the internet. The quotes are there because they aren't free to run, someone has to pay. If they don't get income from something, be it ads or some other service that they can charge for, then it's out of pocket money, and that eventually runs out or loses its appeal. Now if you were frugal, the issue would be not of "what's free" but "what's a decent newsserver that also has a reasonable cost". Other frugal suggestions might be to change your ISP, to one that provides good service, good price, and a good newsserver. Michael |