Which Service?

[Built-to-Fly]

Guys-
I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access. I got tired of
using these free and public access. They are completely unreliable.
So, I wanted to know what kind of access do you guys use, or recommend
one? I have a bunch of homebuilt questions because I am preparing to
make my dream become reality. But, first thing first: I need to secure
the access to you guys. So help me here? Any suggestion?
Toks

[Larry Smith]

"Built-to-Fly" > wrote in message
om...
> Guys-
> I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
> year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access. I got tired of
> using these free and public access. They are completely unreliable.
> So, I wanted to know what kind of access do you guys use, or recommend
> one? I have a bunch of homebuilt questions because I am preparing to
> make my dream become reality. But, first thing first: I need to secure
> the access to you guys. So help me here? Any suggestion?
> Toks

What are you building? There are Yahoo groups and Matronics Groups and
Topica Groups and ...

[David O]

(Built-to-Fly) wrote:

>Guys-
> I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
>year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access. I got tired of
>using these free and public access. They are completely unreliable.
>So, I wanted to know what kind of access do you guys use, or recommend
>one? I have a bunch of homebuilt questions because I am preparing to
>make my dream become reality. But, first thing first: I need to secure
>the access to you guys. So help me here? Any suggestion?
>Toks


I have used Supernews since it was first offered in 1995 and heartily
recommend the service. In addition to excellent retention and
completion, they filter out spam. Current retention for
rec.aviation.homebuilt is over 20,000 articles dating back to January
of this year. Of course, to complement a good news server you should
have a good news reader. I recommend Agent (but not the hopelessly
crippled "Free Agent").

http://www.supernews.com/
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php

The Google Advanced Newsgroup Search page should also be in your bag
of tricks.

http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search


David O -- http://www.AirplaneZone.com

[Daniel]

Built-to-Fly wrote ...
> Guys-
> I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
> year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access. I got tired of
> using these free and public access. They are completely unreliable.
> So, I wanted to know what kind of access do you guys use, or recommend
> one? I have a bunch of homebuilt questions because I am preparing to
> make my dream become reality. But, first thing first: I need to secure
> the access to you guys. So help me here? Any suggestion?
> Toks

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=rec.aviation.homebuilt

Convenient, free, browser based simplicity & complete searchable
archives. No bells & whistles.

Daniel

[Ron Natalie]

"Built-to-Fly" > wrote in message om...
> Guys-
> I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
> year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access.

I have been using newshosting.com. I was using usenetserver.com but their
servers were having a melt down one day and they couldn't give me an estimate
of return to service so I bailed. The only people I can tell you to avoid is giganews.
One gigantic customer service nightmare.

[Dave Anderson]

Toks, you may still have a news server. In my area, attbi service was taken
over by comcast. All I had to do was change the news server name to:
netnews.comcast.net

-Dave

"Built-to-Fly" > wrote in message
om...
> Guys-
> I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
> year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access. I got tired of
> using these free and public access. They are completely unreliable.
> So, I wanted to know what kind of access do you guys use, or recommend
> one? I have a bunch of homebuilt questions because I am preparing to
> make my dream become reality. But, first thing first: I need to secure
> the access to you guys. So help me here? Any suggestion?
> Toks

[Barnyard BOb --]

"Ron Natalie" wrote:

>> Guys-
>> I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
>> year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access.
>
>I have been using newshosting.com. I was using usenetserver.com but their
>servers were having a melt down one day and they couldn't give me an estimate
>of return to service so I bailed. The only people I can tell you to avoid is giganews.
>One gigantic customer service nightmare.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hmmmm.
Dunno what you mean by customer service, but...

I've had GIGANEWS for about a year now.
Superbly satisfied with newsgroups... and binaries.

Speed, reliability, retention and completeness
have been impressive.


Barnyard BOb -- http://www.giganews.com/

[Ron Natalie]

"Barnyard BOb --" > wrote in message ...
=> Dunno what you mean by customer service, but...
>
> I've had GIGANEWS for about a year now.
> Superbly satisfied with newsgroups... and binaries.
>
I mean that they have NON EXISTANT customer serivce when there is
a problem. They screwed up on my billing. My credit card company attempted
to contact them on the telephone number they give to their credit processor but
it has a recorded announcement saying to send email (which credit card security
folks are not up to doing). They have no way to reach support by telephone.
The email support is slow and surly.

[Corrie]

What I like about Google's view of the news is the color-coded
responses. It's easy to tell what's a new message, what's a quoted
previous message, what's a quote of a quote, etc.

Downside is that you have to have an ISP and web access, since it's
browser-based.

Corrie

(Daniel) wrote in message >...
> Built-to-Fly wrote ...
> > Guys-
> > I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
> > year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access. I got tired of
> > using these free and public access. They are completely unreliable.
> > So, I wanted to know what kind of access do you guys use, or recommend
> > one? I have a bunch of homebuilt questions because I am preparing to
> > make my dream become reality. But, first thing first: I need to secure
> > the access to you guys. So help me here? Any suggestion?
> > Toks
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=rec.aviation.homebuilt
>
> Convenient, free, browser based simplicity & complete searchable
> archives. No bells & whistles.
>
> Daniel

[Cymen Vig]

terra wrote:

> Built-to-Fly wrote:
>
>> Guys-
>> I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
>> year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access. I got tired of
>> using these free and public access. They are completely unreliable.
>> So, I wanted to know what kind of access do you guys use, or recommend
>> one? I have a bunch of homebuilt questions because I am preparing to
>> make my dream become reality. But, first thing first: I need to secure
>> the access to you guys. So help me here? Any suggestion?
>> Toks
>
> I've been using these guys --> http://news.cis.dfn.de/ <-- for a few
> years. Always there, responsive, works well with Netscape7/Mozilla
> newsreaders...
>
> ... no binary groups though.

Seconded -- I've been using them for a couple years too and I've had
problems accessing the server maybe once or twice. If you want binaries,
then by all means try someone else but even some of the for-pay usenet
services are not as good at text groups than the free cis.dfn people.

In article >,
Built-to-Fly > wrote:
>
>
>Guys-
> I have been using free and public access to newsgroup for about a
>year or so, since attbi stopped providing the access. I got tired of
>using these free and public access. They are completely unreliable.
>So, I wanted to know what kind of access do you guys use, or recommend
>one? I have a bunch of homebuilt questions because I am preparing to
>make my dream become reality. But, first thing first: I need to secure
>the access to you guys. So help me here? Any suggestion?
>Toks

For pay USENET services, Supernews and Newsguy are the biggies. both
are first-class operations. Terranews's free service is so-so, but their
basic pay service is much better.

If don't need access to the binaries newsgroups, there's a *good* free
service out of Germany. Don't remember the exact name, it's something
like {mumble].ifn.de