public access or low cost news servers???

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Anyone out there know a good public news server? Rogers is dropping
Nttp support on the 15th. Would like to be able to continue usenet.

[Darrel Toepfer]

wrote:
> Anyone out there know a good public news server? Rogers is dropping
> Nttp support on the 15th. Would like to be able to continue usenet.


http://www.usenet-provider.com

cis.dfn.de - Free
teranews.com - Free

There are lots of pay services. These use NNTP client software, unlike
Google which forces a web interface...

Rogers unlike Shaw has at least cleaned up their spamming a bit...

[Smitty Two]

In article >,
wrote:

> Anyone out there know a good public news server? Rogers is dropping
> Nttp support on the 15th. Would like to be able to continue usenet.

I confess that this question - as well as the very existence of
stand-alone news servers - confuses me, because I thought all ISPs
provide usenet access as part of the package. Evidently I'm wrong, but
what's the whole story?

[Darrel Toepfer]

Smitty Two wrote:

> I confess that this question - as well as the very existence of
> stand-alone news servers - confuses me, because I thought all ISPs
> provide usenet access as part of the package. Evidently I'm wrong, but
> what's the whole story?

Discount ISP's don't include NNTP access, you either pay extra or
subscribe to outside specialist... Giganews, Newsguy, etc.

Full Usenet access can require lots of bandwidth, especially if you are
running your own NNTP servers (nearly 1200 gigs of traffic a day).
Unless you run a throttled server/feed (Charter's access to Giganews as
an example, 20kbps per connection with a max of 2) each user consumes
their entire bandwidth allotment during each NNTP session (pulling
headers or download message bodies) which uses massive amounts of inside
bandwidth as well...

If you want to archive 10 days of Usenet messages (text and binary) then
you'll need in excess of 12 terabytes of harddisk space...

http://newsadmin.com/top100bytes.asp
http://www.newsadmin.net/feedbytes.htm

[Jim Logajan]

wrote:
> Anyone out there know a good public news server? Rogers is dropping
> Nttp support on the 15th. Would like to be able to continue usenet.

In addition to options suggested by others, you might try:

http://news.individual.net/

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>The simplest is Google groups.

I totally agree with you.
Google is the most comprehensive news server in the world, it carries
ALL the groups with a database of all the messages.

Piero

[Darrel Toepfer]

wrote:
>> The simplest is Google groups.
>
> I totally agree with you.
> Google is the most comprehensive news server in the world, it carries
> ALL the groups with a database of all the messages.

"ALL" text groups... There's thousands of groups that they don't carry...

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> "ALL" text groups... There's thousands of groups that they don't carry...

Ok, ALL the groups that can interest more than five people... :-)))

Piero