Ted Walker wrote:
From a previous post today you can see that ATT is discontinuing its
Newsgroup service. Help! I depend on this & several other newsgroups for
my learning experiences. Can anyone suggest a paid service that they are
using & happy with?? I'd also like to have access to binairies for when
people post photos of their projects.


I've been using the cheapest level of GigaNews and am really happy with
their performance and reliability. As far as I know, they have never
been down in several years of use. The only problem is they keep too
MUCH! The rec.crafts.metalworking holds all data back to 6/20/2003!
(I'm guessing that's when GigaNews started operation.) The problem with
this is there are about 500,000 posts there, and that bogs down my
browser with sorting and threading the whole list. It also bugs me to
have to pay for something that is SUPPOSED to be included with my ISP
contract, but their 3rd party NNTP service is a total joke, there was a
period where it wend down every weekend for the entire weekend!

Jon