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From: Jerry Boyle on 23 May 2010 20:51

"Laura" <invalid(a)sample.invalid> wrote in message
news:htbvbu$4o8$1(a)n102.xanadu-bbs.net...
> wbertram(a)teranews.com wrote:

> Another free news server is news.eternal-september.org. All text
> newsgroups--no binaries allowed.

I've been using eternal-september with no problems since last July when AT&T
and BellSouth shut down their news servers. A very belated thanks to Laura
for making me aware of it way back then.

Jerry

From: Laura on 23 May 2010 20:58
Jerry Boyle wrote:
>
> "Laura" <invalid(a)sample.invalid> wrote in message
> news:htbvbu$4o8$1(a)n102.xanadu-bbs.net...
>> wbertram(a)teranews.com wrote:
>
>> Another free news server is news.eternal-september.org. All text
>> newsgroups--no binaries allowed.
>
> I've been using eternal-september with no problems since last July when
> AT&T and BellSouth shut down their news servers. A very belated thanks
> to Laura for making me aware of it way back then.
>
> Jerry

You are very welcome.
From: Nobody on 23 May 2010 21:02
On Sun, 23 May 2010 10:44:08 -0700, Jim H <jimh(a)invalid.com> wrote:

>Nobody wrote:
>
>> Non-techies had no idea where to go, as their ISP's didn't point them
>> to servers such as Giganews and others.)
>
>Cox sent me an email announcing their withdrawal from Usenet service.
>They included a discount offer for Giganews.

You've edited out that my comment applied to Oz and Kiwi ISP's who
were singularly unhelpful to anyone trying to unnerstand what wuz
going on!

Several years ago, my own ISP in western Canada signed me up with a
freebie subscription to an NNTP server whose name I've forgotten.

Retention was abysmal... Giganews won easily at $US3/month for the few
GB I need.
From: Rick Hess on 24 May 2010 09:51

"Laura" <invalid(a)sample.invalid> wrote in message
news:htbvbu$4o8$1(a)n102.xanadu-bbs.net...
> wbertram(a)teranews.com wrote:
>> On 5/23/2010 1:44 PM, Jim H wrote:
>>> Nobody wrote:
>>>
>>>> Non-techies had no idea where to go, as their ISP's didn't point them
>>>> to servers such as Giganews and others.)
>>>
>>> Cox sent me an email announcing their withdrawal from Usenet service.
>>> They included a discount offer for Giganews.
>>
>> Don't forget teranews.com. they offer a free account.
>
> I have a freebie teranews account but don't use it for posting. I have
> only been able to get it to post 1 or 2 messages of mine in the 5-6 years
> that I have had the account. Totally useless if you are an active poster.
>
> Another free news server is news.eternal-september.org. All text
> newsgroups--no binaries allowed.
>


I'm using news.eternal-september.org and news.aioe.org simultaneously. I've
found the latter to be more reliable. Both are free.


--


Rick Hess


From: B on 25 May 2010 14:30
On 5/23/2010 3:12 PM, Laura wrote:
> B wrote:
>> On 5/20/2010 12:55 PM, charliec(a)email.com wrote:
>>> What's happening to this newsgroup - no messages for a few days?
>>>
>>> Charliec
>> I discovered that the name of the free eternal-september.org
>> newsserver that I've been using suddenly stopped working. After a
>> couple of days of getting (not able to connect to server" messages I
>> went to their website and see that the server name I have been using
>> for months or years was not listed. When I changed to one of the
>> listed servers all is well again.
>>
>> I wonder how many other people have been impacted by that.
>
> What server were you using? I have always used News.eternal-september.org.
>
> I found several google posts indicating folks using just
> eternal-september.org for the server name not being able to connect.
Had been using eternal-september.org for quite some time. Only very
recently that stopped working. Eventually I discovered that the
solution was to change the server to news.external-september.org.
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