Chris Dubea wrote:


On 31 Oct 2007 00:50:07 GMT, (William J King) wrote:


rec.woodworking has been a valuable resource to me over
the years. Regretably the University of Hawaii administrators
decided to end their support of the news service.

I'll try find another way to get back to rec.woodworking
in the mean time, keep on building with wood.


William J. King, PhD, MPH
University of Hawaii--Manoa
( e-mail )
Actually:
21 degrees 17 minutes 56.2653 seconds North
157 degrees 48 minutes 57.8565 seconds West


Hi Bill,

I suffered the same fate a while back.

I searched around and found teranews.

http://www.teranews.com/

You have to register which is a one time fee of $5 to keep the rip raf
to a minimum and then you have free access. You are limited to 5 mb
of downloads per day with the free account, which should be good for
any text based usenet group. If you want to do significant binary
downloading then teranews is not for you.

Good luck

While the price for teranews is right, people have had mixed results.
When I used it after my ISP discontinued news service, teranews service was
spotty at best. Both the text news groups and binaries services were
on-again/off-again in terms of available. I initially attributed this to
the free service and tried the paid service -- same result.

My second survey of providers pointed to both GigaNews and Supernews as
highly reliable providers. I chose Supernews, others have recommended
Giganews -- you probably won't go wrong with either of them.




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