Discussion:
AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down
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Angelo Campanella
2009-07-08 15:31:34 UTC
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Dear a.s.p.a. followers that use att.net, bellsouth, etc ISP's:

As they announce, UseNet news service will no longer be provided by them
after 15 July 09.

I asked within their 'bellesouth.net.support.news-service' group about
alternate news sources, and this is the response of one soul there provided
(my dialog):

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Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
offering access to the Usenet netnews service. If you wish to continue
reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party
vendors.
Distribution: AT&T Worldnet Usenet Netnews Servers
The end of something!
Hopefully, it's not out of line to discuss the availble vendors for such
a service. Does All/BellSouth/Yahoo have such?
On Googling it, the first hit was "Razor"
Suggestions?
Freebees?
Angelo Campanella
Nearly all the freebies I know about are known for being unreliable except
for a few that only carry newsgroups related to products of the company
http://news.aioe.org/
http://www.readfreenews.com/
http://www.eternal-september.org/
(Formerly known as motzarella.org)
http://www.x-privat.org/index.php
http://albasani.net/index.html.en
http://news.ett.com.ua/
http://news.solani.org/
http://news.tornevall.net/?do=unused
http://www.usenet4all.se/
http://freenews.maxbaud.net/
http://www.disenter.com/
http://freefreenews.50webs.com/
http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
If you want one that's free, offers web viewing instead of
NNTP like most of the others, and is so infested with
spammers that posts entered there are often deleted
http://groups.google.com/
If you want one that's cheap, reliable, and filters out most
http://www.news.individual.net/
If you want one that's cheap and not very reliable, but
offers binaries, try the limited volume or block accounts
http://www.teranews.com/
http://usenet-news.net/?ref=103974
However, note that both of these have recently added a
large number of newsgroups to their lists without actually
making access to these newsgroups available.
If you're willing to pay more for a reliable server with a
http://www.giganews.com/
http://www.newsfeeds.com/
http://www.newsgroupservers.net/
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/usenet-providers.html
http://www.newsreaders.com/newsfeeds/
http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html
http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm
http://www.newsadmin.com/
http://www.newzbot.com/
http://news.anthologeek.net/
Robert Miles
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The Ghost
2009-07-09 00:18:44 UTC
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You can get usenet access for $3/month from Giganews.



"Angelo Campanella" <***@att.net> wrote in news:qZ25m.427914$***@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
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Post by Angelo Campanella
As they announce, UseNet news service will no longer be provided by them
after 15 July 09.
I asked within their 'bellesouth.net.support.news-service' group about
alternate news sources, and this is the response of one soul there
//////////////////////quote\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
offering access to the Usenet netnews service. If you wish to
continue reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through
third-party vendors.
Distribution: AT&T Worldnet Usenet Netnews Servers
The end of something!
Hopefully, it's not out of line to discuss the availble vendors for
such a service. Does All/BellSouth/Yahoo have such?
On Googling it, the first hit was "Razor"
Suggestions?
Freebees?
Angelo Campanella
Nearly all the freebies I know about are known for being unreliable
except for a few that only carry newsgroups related to products of
the company that runs them. However, if you want to try them anyway,
http://news.aioe.org/
http://www.readfreenews.com/
http://www.eternal-september.org/
(Formerly known as motzarella.org)
http://www.x-privat.org/index.php
http://albasani.net/index.html.en
http://news.ett.com.ua/
http://news.solani.org/
http://news.tornevall.net/?do=unused
http://www.usenet4all.se/
http://freenews.maxbaud.net/
http://www.disenter.com/
http://freefreenews.50webs.com/
http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
If you want one that's free, offers web viewing instead of
NNTP like most of the others, and is so infested with
spammers that posts entered there are often deleted
http://groups.google.com/
If you want one that's cheap, reliable, and filters out most
http://www.news.individual.net/
If you want one that's cheap and not very reliable, but
offers binaries, try the limited volume or block accounts
http://www.teranews.com/
http://usenet-news.net/?ref=103974
However, note that both of these have recently added a
large number of newsgroups to their lists without actually
making access to these newsgroups available.
If you're willing to pay more for a reliable server with a
http://www.giganews.com/
http://www.newsfeeds.com/
http://www.newsgroupservers.net/
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/usenet-providers.html
http://www.newsreaders.com/newsfeeds/
http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html
http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm
http://www.newsadmin.com/
http://www.newzbot.com/
http://news.anthologeek.net/
Robert Miles
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Kathy Morgan
2009-07-12 06:49:46 UTC
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Post by The Ghost
You can get usenet access for $3/month from Giganews.
If all you care about are text groups, Individual.Net is cheaper and IMO
better (very good retention and excellent spam filtering).
<http://individual.net/> It costs 10 Euros per year, which is currently
about $13.90/year.
--
Kathy
dprusinowski
2009-07-23 09:35:20 UTC
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I subscribe to a.s.p.a. on the following no charge services:
freenews.netfront.net
news.telesweet.net
textnews.news.cambrium.nl

D. Prusinowski
Post by Angelo Campanella
As they announce, UseNet news service will no longer be provided by them
after 15 July 09.
I asked within their 'bellesouth.net.support.news-service' group about
alternate news sources, and this is the response of one soul there provided
//////////////////////quote\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
offering access to the Usenet netnews service. If you wish to continue
reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party
vendors.
Distribution: AT&T Worldnet Usenet Netnews Servers
The end of something!
Hopefully, it's not out of line to discuss the availble vendors for such
a service. Does All/BellSouth/Yahoo have such?
On Googling it, the first hit was "Razor"
Suggestions?
Freebees?
Angelo Campanella
Nearly all the freebies I know about are known for being unreliable except
for a few that only carry newsgroups related to products of the company
http://news.aioe.org/
http://www.readfreenews.com/
http://www.eternal-september.org/
(Formerly known as motzarella.org)
http://www.x-privat.org/index.php
http://albasani.net/index.html.en
http://news.ett.com.ua/
http://news.solani.org/
http://news.tornevall.net/?do=unused
http://www.usenet4all.se/
http://freenews.maxbaud.net/
http://www.disenter.com/
http://freefreenews.50webs.com/
http://www.sforum.nl/nntp/show.php?l=en
If you want one that's free, offers web viewing instead of
NNTP like most of the others, and is so infested with
spammers that posts entered there are often deleted
http://groups.google.com/
If you want one that's cheap, reliable, and filters out most
http://www.news.individual.net/
If you want one that's cheap and not very reliable, but
offers binaries, try the limited volume or block accounts
http://www.teranews.com/
http://usenet-news.net/?ref=103974
However, note that both of these have recently added a
large number of newsgroups to their lists without actually
making access to these newsgroups available.
If you're willing to pay more for a reliable server with a
http://www.giganews.com/
http://www.newsfeeds.com/
http://www.newsgroupservers.net/
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com/usenet-providers.html
http://www.newsreaders.com/newsfeeds/
http://www.geeks.org/~ed/Usenet_Servers.html
http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm
http://www.newsadmin.com/
http://www.newzbot.com/
http://news.anthologeek.net/
Robert Miles
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Angelo Campanella
2009-07-23 13:45:18 UTC
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Post by dprusinowski
freenews.netfront.net
news.telesweet.net
textnews.news.cambrium.nl
D. Prusinowski
WOW! I just signed up on freeenews. After downloading the way over
20,000 odd list of groups, asps came in clean.

THANKS

Ange
robert bristow-johnson
2009-07-24 03:59:58 UTC
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Post by dprusinowski
freenews.netfront.net
news.telesweet.net
textnews.news.cambrium.nl
D. Prusinowski
    WOW! I just signed up on freeenews. After downloading the way over
20,000 odd list of groups, asps came in clean.
you mean clean of the nasty spam?

r b-j
robert bristow-johnson
2009-07-24 04:01:40 UTC
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Post by dprusinowski
freenews.netfront.net
news.telesweet.net
textnews.news.cambrium.nl
D. Prusinowski
    WOW! I just signed up on freeenews. After downloading the way over
20,000 odd list of groups, asps came in clean.
i just went to http://freenews.netfront.net/ and all's i get is a dumb
page that says "It works!".

r b-j
Angelo Campanella
2009-07-24 11:46:13 UTC
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"robert bristow-johnson" <***@audioimagination.com> wrote in message
news:cfb9a013-8217-4e68-a5ad-
Post by Angelo Campanella
WOW! I just signed up on freeenews. After downloading the way over
20,000 odd list of groups, asps came in clean.
i just went to http://freenews.netfront.net/ and all's i get is a dumb
page that says "It works!".

r b-j

Answering your two messages, By come in clean, I meant without trip-ups.

1- As far as spam is concerned, I wait and see.
One message just came in about music downloads which is sort of off-topic,
but otherwise innocuous...
I looked back on its inventory of aspa messages, and most were on-topic.
The oldest was 3 March '09, so it looks like they keep a quarter of
back-messages.
A few spam messages were there.

2- Just tried the freenet site again, & as you noted; mystery. Was not like
that yesterday... It may be a work in progress. By Googling, I find other
comments implying that it's been around for a long time.

Here is a general tutorial on signing up:
http://santosh.wordpress.com/2005/01/25/usenet-and-newsgroups-how-to-configure-them/

Maybe D. Prusinowski can shed some light on this... He gave several options
for free newsnet.. perhaps there is a better choice..

Ange

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