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 graysonfPremium,MVM
join:1999-07-16
Fort Lauderdale, FL | Altopia I recommend Altopia »www.altopia.com
Us old timers know them as alt.net |
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 wifi4milezBig Russ, 1918 to 2008. Rest in Peace
join:2004-08-07
New York, NY | Never used one.... In all honesty, I have never once used a newsgroup in all the (many) years I have been on the internet. I dont see what the big deal is anyway, because as far as I can tell all they do is offer a place to get pirated content or questionable image files. |
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 ·Comcast
| Horse and Buggy Technology The explains use net to me.
I see this ISP using the crackdown as an excuse so they would not have to waste time on a vocal minority. The web a la Blogs, and Social networking killed USENET. I haven't installed a Usenet reader in two years. Today most groups I was involved with are unused or just spam. What next for you Karl, we bring back Gopher. |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5
2 edits | Some links for those looking for best Newsgroup providers A few links comparing the different newsgroup services, showing price, features, etc.:
»www.newsgroupservers.net/
»www.newsgroupreviews.com/
»www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=3&sort=all
The ones the editors like best:
»www.newsgroupreviews.com/Editors_Choice.html
»www.slyck.com/ngnew.php?page=3
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 halo5
join:2000-07-20
Dayton, OH | Newshosting Been using them for years. The guys that started it also had an ISP here in Dayton for years that I worked at.
Probably assembled 1/2 their server farm over the years. |
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| Couldnt be happier with »www.blocknews.net here. They have all the standard features like SSL and account types plus you can get weekly unlimited accounts for like 5 bucks. If you can save up your downloads, this is the way to go. |
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 DreadOn coursePremium
join:2005-02-28
Bronx, NY
kudos:6 | Giganews Well worth the premium |
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 swintecPremium,VIP
join:2003-12-19
Alfred, ME
kudos:4 | reply to Linklist
Re: Some links for those looking for best Newsgroup providers Slyck, in my opinion, is the best non-biased resource so far for comparing servers. Most of the other ones will play up whoever can give the best affiliate/referral payouts.
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Re: Giganews Agreed. Sucking down @ 60 megabits/second here at school  |
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| NewsHosting... ..all the Way. Been with them for five years, no problems, love the support. |
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| The Atlanta Journal Constitution..... All my news is grouped into one paper. |
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openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | reply to wifi4milez
Re: Never used one.... said by wifi4milez:as far as I can tell all they do is offer a place to get pirated content or questionable image files. You don't see the big deal in that  |
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| Tera News I have a free account (initial $3.95 set up fee) from »www.teranews.com/
The download limit is 50MB per day, but if you only want to read and post news you can't beat them. 50MB doesn't give much room for downloads, but music files would be fine if you kept an eye on the usage. |
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| Powerusenet They're a Giganews reseller, with less retention but also a bit cheaper. They have the same speed and reliability of Giganews. |
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kenyg
join:2001-02-09
Hatboro, PA | Newshosting Another thumbs up here.
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 bobrkYou kids get offa my lawnPremium
join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA
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| You mean warezgroups? I've walked away from USENET, although my ISP seems to have pretty good service. They're pretty good for getting filez I guess, but they suck for discussion now.
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 tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
kudos:1 | reply to Scatcatpdx
Re: Horse and Buggy Technology said by Scatcatpdx:The explains use net to me. I see this ISP using the crackdown as an excuse so they would not have to waste time on a vocal minority. The web a la Blogs, and Social networking killed USENET. I haven't installed a Usenet reader in two years. Today most groups I was involved with are unused or just spam. What next for you Karl, we bring back Gopher. Seems you don't "get" usenet then. The problem with the web is that people don't want to go to a bunch of different forums to discuss X,Y,Z with other users. People don't want to browse long blog diatribes by self-important writers. Usenet provides perfect, centralized discussion for the entire planet. Instead of thousands of servers with millions of independent forums, you have thousands of servers mirroring the same discussions, making the same discussions available worldwide. If i'm on usenet and i'm curious about conservatism, i'll lurk the conservative groups. If i'm on the web, i'm FAAAR more likely to stick to websites i know or that i'm linked to, because there's too much hassle in browsing random forums looking for that one rare forum with good discussion, where people won't berate you your first 100 posts for being a newbie, etc.. etc..
Usenet aint perfect, but it aint obsolete either.
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Re: Giganews Have to agree, worth every penny. I can pull about 80mbps when my co-located server is pulling down files. |
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 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to Dread
Ditto...worth the dough |
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