Goodbye news.individual

My temporary measure seems to be Freeserve (or Wanadoo if you like...) News servers, i suspect they're probably going to be shit tho :)

Someone recommend me good access please :D Text only, cheap, reliable :)

The german server, obviously.

Works out at todays rates, at £7.14 for a whole *years* worth of access... hardly a massive amount, especially given the quality of the service they provide overall.

-- JackH

Yeeea that'll do. I'll be arsed to sort it out later :)

is according to 'news.individual', the official UK partner to 'Firstgate' - if you register on that, it'll take immediate payment and hook you back up to their server, once you select to option to pay by 'Firstgate', on their registration page.

I did mine earlier tonight, no probs at all. :-)

-- JackH

I just signed up with them. $16 to talk shit on the internet for a year. Bargain.

Fraser

Likewise. Paid up when I heard it was going pay. Have had it free for long enough, time to give them something back.

Biggest glitch I had was, after they started settign things up for=20 payment and limiting access, my Mozilla Thunderbird wouldn't pass the=20 correct responses. It had worked fine for nearly a year with no changes,=20 and suddenly they wouldn't accept my password. Ended up having to go=20 back to Gravity, completly wipe my old gravity install that was FU'd=20 (hence why I was using Thunderbird in the first place), and re-install=20 an earlier build of gravity. Individual support says that I was logging=20 on and off, but wouldn't accept that I was getting password failure.

--=20 "Sorry Sir, the meatballs are Orf" The poster formerly known as Skodapilot.

It's early days of course, but it seems a lot faster today now the freeloaders have all been kicked off....

Hello,

Why pay for a service that most if not all ISPs already provide? I have used news servers on nearly every company I have been with and never had any trouble. There is NO reason to pay extra unless you're after a specific newsgroup or uncensored newsfeeds. It's probably faster because the number of people using the system has probably fallen now a charge applies. Why pay your ISP and a third party for the same thing? I'll never understand some people, probably the same type that will buy a new product that has a 12 month and pay extra for yet another warranty!

Because for 10 euros / year the German news server is a fast, reliable feed that doesn't drop posts or let spam and binaries through, unlike most ISP news servers do.

I'm very happy to given them my 10 euros / year for that service, especially as I've been a 'freeloader' for so long now.

I'll be using four different ISPs in the next 3 days.

So there is a reason.

My laptop goes on about 3 different networks and my isp won't let me access the news server unless I am on their network. Which means I can't use usenet when I am out and about which really sucks. For 10 euros a year I can plug my laptop in anywhere and I get to use the same news server. Which blocks spam and attachments. Bargain really.

Fraser

My ISPs news server disappeared for 6 months, with no explaination as to why except an announcement to say it was back. When I first signed up for ADSL they didn't have one. Prior to that I was using very poor news-servers that came with whichever ISP I was using at the time.

CIS saved my usenet. They allowed me free access for 5 years, so it's only fair I pay now when they start to charge, even if it is just until I see how their payed for service compares with other commercial ones.

Pipex doesn't either.

Vodafone don't have a news server - so what am i meant to do?

Mainly because my ISP doesn't provide a news service.

HTH.

They do.....

News Server (logon required) nntp.dsl.pipex.com Dial-Up News Server (no logon required) news.dial.pipex.com Text only News Server (no logon required) news-text.dsl.pipex.com

Woops soz, thought you meant Pipex didn't have a newserver :) my bad