My ISP is dropping Usenet

My ISP (AT&T) is dropping Usenet and I was wondering what options are
available without a fee. The note from AT&T indicated the alternatives would
involve a fee.

Bryan

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:05:00 -0400, "Bryan"
wrote:

My ISP (AT&T) is dropping Usenet and I was wondering what options are
available without a fee. The note from AT&T indicated the alternatives would
involve a fee.

There are free alternatives, such as TeraNews. I've used them, and they
work- more or less. In the end, I went with a pay service, Agent Premium
News from forteinc.com. It sets me back a whopping $2.95 per month, and
is very reliable.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

"Bryan" wrote:

My ISP (AT&T) is dropping Usenet and I was wondering what options are
available without a fee. The note from AT&T indicated the alternatives would
involve a fee.

The same thing happened to me a while back. After a period of silence
(At least your ISP gave you advance notice!) I eventually decided to
go with Google Groups. http://groups.google.com There's no fee.

Sketcher,
To sketch is to see.

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:05:00 -0400, "Bryan"
wrote:

My ISP (AT&T) is dropping Usenet and I was wondering what options are
available without a fee. The note from AT&T indicated the alternatives would
involve a fee.

Bryan


I just moved from AT&T to
http://www.eternal-september.org/Reg...ewsAccount.php

Text newsgroups only, no binaries, but free and pretty fast.

Bryan:
My ISP (AT&T) is dropping Usenet and I was wondering what options are
available without a fee. The note from AT&T indicated the alternatives would
involve a fee.

Eric:
I just moved from AT&T to
http://www.eternal-september.org/Reg...ewsAccount.php

Text newsgroups only, no binaries, but free and pretty fast.

I also endorse eternal-september.org. I switched because Verizon FIOS
stopped carrying certain (legitimate) newsgroups that interest me, such
as one for owners of a certain brand of automobile. e-s has been fast
and reliable for me since I switched about a month ago.

Davoud

--
usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

Davoud wrote:
Bryan:
My ISP (AT&T) is dropping Usenet and I was wondering what options are
available without a fee. The note from AT&T indicated the alternatives would
involve a fee.

Eric:
I just moved from AT&T to
http://www.eternal-september.org/Reg...ewsAccount.php

Text newsgroups only, no binaries, but free and pretty fast.

I also endorse eternal-september.org.

Me three.

I also switched to eternal-september because ATT shut their usenet feed
down; eternal-september is free and works well, and it's a real news
server, so real news readers will work with it - hence you don't have to
mess with clumsy web based interfaces like google's.

On Jul 8, 2:05*pm, "Bryan" wrote:
My ISP (AT&T) is dropping Usenet and I was wondering what options are
available without a fee. The note from AT&T indicated the alternatives would
involve a fee.

No problem whatsoever - just go to http://groups.google.com/group/sci.astro..amateur/

No need for "Usenet" anymore.

wrote:

On Jul 8, 2:05*pm, "Bryan" wrote:
My ISP (AT&T) is dropping Usenet and I was wondering what options are
available without a fee. The note from AT&T indicated the alternatives would
involve a fee.

No problem whatsoever - just go to http://groups.google.com/group/sci.astro.amateur/

No need for "Usenet" anymore.

Unless you want a useful client with which to read and post messages.
Google Groups is to Usenet as AOL is to the web.
--
Dave

On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:39:46 -0400, Dave Typinski
wrote:

Unless you want a useful client with which to read and post messages.
Google Groups is to Usenet as AOL is to the web.

Worse (and I never thought anything could be worse than AOL).
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com