Tim Schwartz wrote:
Hello all,
This morning's e-mail included the letter below from Verizon FIOS,
my ISP provider. (But at least they are not lowering the price for
reducing my service. G)
One more blow to what's left of usenet. Anyone suggest any
alternate service? I don't really need "more exciting ways of getting
and sharing information via the Web".
Regards,
Tim Schwartz
Bristol Electronics
Dear Valued Verizon Online Member,
Newsgroups were initially developed as a text-based way to share
information on the Internet. Today, demand for newsgroups is much lower,
since most users have switched to more exciting ways of getting and
sharing information via the Web, such as social networks, email and
sites such as our Verizon Central Newsroom.
Because of the reduced demand for newsgroups, on September 30, 2009,
Verizon will discontinue its USENET newsgroup service. Subscribers will
not be able to post or download material from the Verizon newsgroup
service after this date.
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Free or very cheap Usenet/News Servers (note that free servers may
experience occasional outages and/or missed posts):
http://www.eternal-september.org [formerly motzarella.org, Free]
http://www.albasani.net [Free, Germany based, very good spam filtering]
http://www.aioe.org [Free, daily postings limited to 25]
http://usenet4all.se [Free, Google Groups filtered]
http://www.news.cis.dfn.de [Free, Germany based]
http://dotsrc.org/usenet [Free, Denmark based, may lack some groups]
http://www.usenet-replayer.com [Free, web-based; posts are relayed]
http://www.x-privat.org/international.php [Free with fee-based options,
may lack some groups]
http://www.teranews.com [One time setup charge, carry some binary groups]
http://www.bubbanews.com [One time setup charge, fee-based options]
https://www.altopia.com [$6 per yr & up, carry some binary groups]
http://news.datemas.de [5 Euros ($7) per yr, Germany based]
http://www.glorb.com/usenet.php [$10 per yr]
http://news.individual.net [10 Euros ($14) per yr, Germany based, very
good spam filtering]
Metered/"pay by download" servers (preferred by some for economy, binary
access):
http://www.news.astraweb.com
http://usenet-news.net
http://www.octanews.com
Popular paid servers:
http://www.giganews.com
http://www.newsguy.com
http://www.supernews.com
http://www.powerusenet.com
http://www.easynews.com
http://www.forteinc.com/apn
http://www.newsrazor.net
http://www.binverse.com
http://secure.usenet-access.com
Reviews & info on paid servers:
http://www.newsgroupreviews.com
http://www.newsgroups.gs
http://ngprovider.com
More info on servers, both paid & free (somewhat outdated):
http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/...providers.html
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News Readers, list of:
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