Re: OT: Usenet service help

["Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx>]

"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.


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