bent wrote:
go to http://www.usenet-provider.com/ or type "usenet providers reviews"
into dogpile.com search engine.

I use dogpile because it searches all search engines. If you go into
preferences, you can display by search engine, relevancy, etc. You canalso
set to display results on a seperate page. That means when you get the
results page and you click a link, another new page opens. When you
minimize that page the complete search page is still there, with the link
you've clicked already displayed in a different colour. Click a new link,
and get a new page, with the orig. source page still there, with two links a
different colour. Check track of each and every return, and visit themin
any order.

I went with rogers hi-speed ($45/mo), until they offered hi-speed extreme
($45/mo) which is a little faster if you buy the modem to own ($100). With
my modem in tow I just went down to ($19.95/mo) service for the last 6
weeks, and don't care realy about the speed difference for www and
newsgroups. I have often wondered what it would be like to have a realnews
service. I think I'll find out, and this may offset the cost. However, in
6 weeks I have not done any major mp3 groups, and can't say whats goingon
there. The odd porno - no prob. Slower yes, but its taking the pressure
off the bill for now.

When I check out newsservers, I'll pay attention to things like retention
times, etc... read all the info in these above sites. Then if I can I'll
check them out for a month, to see whats best. My next dogpile search
string is gonna be "newsfeeds.com usenet.com mp3"

Rogers is insulting us newsgroup users with this message.



http://www.newsgroupservers.net/

Hope this helps you too...

The Rogers feed was GigaNews -- which is apparently one of the best.


And I agree on the Rogers crap... Now I'm bent too -- right oughta shape...



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