Re: OT: Usenet service help

[G. Morgan <your@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob La Londe wrote:

>"G. Morgan" <your@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:048f2dfb667eee07af786dbf0badccfcnp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Matt Ion wrote:
>>
>> >G. Morgan wrote:
>> >> Bob La Londe wrote:
>> >
>> >>> I'm looking for a decent inexpensive (text only is fine) low useage
>> >>> Usenet news provider.  All I have seen so far cost as much as a dial
>> >>> up ISP.  Suggestions?
>> >
>> >> Free accounts:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.motzarella.org/
>> >> <clean feeds - posting privileges - some skipped articles>
>> >
>> >
>> >I'm using this now since my ISP has YET AGAIN broken my posting to a
>> >particular moderated group, and is expiring articles after only a
>> >week... working very well for me, they have a healthy selection of
>> >groups and good response (post-to-appear) times.  I haven't NOTICED any
>> >skipped articles, but then I haven't been comparing to anything.  I'd
>> >recommend giving it a shot.
>>
>> Yeah Ray runs a good server.  There has been intermittent problems with
>> news.motzarella.org and nntp.motzarella.org but he sez use
>> reader.motzarella.org for a backup.
>>
>> You may want to use a strategy of sucking articles from many sources
>instead of
>> just relying on one, especially Motzarella.  I never used Thunderbird
>before so
>> I don't know if has the capability, does it?
>>
>> Also.. I just tried:
>> http://www.cnntp.org/index.html
>>
>> Good group coverage, speedy, not much on retention but no "shoe spam".
>
>Sign up for news.motzarella.org this morning per your reccomendation.  Also
>saved your post for future refference.  Wow.  Compared to teranews this is
>cool beans.


Enjoy.  I think you'll be pretty happy with Motzarella.

Teranews sucks, they spam every outgoing post with their "Posted by Teranews"
tag line, rendering properly delimited user signatures (-- ) broken.  I had no
idea they were dropping so many of your posts and delaying them too (1 week!
that's crazy).


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-G