OT: Any free News Server out there?

and others on this group have been using it for years. Works great,less filling.

I second that! Great service.

-- Howard Rose

1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe 1962 Austin Mini Deluxe 1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe (cars and email on website)

There should be an e-mail in your in-box which begins:

Dear users of News.Individual.NET,

effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based service.....

Oh? In that case: Uh oh. :-)

year. I just bit the bullet and am going

I'm considering doing the same thing myself. I'm not sure if I could sleep well at night knowing I was depriving all of you of my commentary. ;-)

Uh oh indeed! Any other free alternatives? Apart from Google, I want to read my mail in Agent.

-- Howard Rose

1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe 1962 Austin Mini Deluxe 1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe (cars and email on website)

I could use the news server at work, but from past experience I'm very aware that's not a good idea. Hmm... I should probably just use the news server that my ISP (road-runner) has. How do you get online, Howard? I mean does your ISP not offer a news server?

There are quite a few "free" public servers. They don't all carry all groups and not all permit posting. But worth a search.

Speedy Jim

They are now a pay service starting March 1 I believe.

nate

if you need one, I have one... just a very small amount of groups, but this is one of them.

I can give away some small number of accounts to regulars, send me an email.

(the server is in Santiago, chile, but if you were posting through germany and living with it, its not going to be that much different :)

Wait a minite; I thought the "news servers" were software on your computer. No? I'm using talkaboutautos.com to access these (for free), but it's not great (reply field is blank for instance) so I was expecting to find a good "news server" myself soon. Also, dosen't Outlook have that function too? Of course, that will be useless when I start using my linix machine... ~ Paul aka "Tha Driver"

Giggle Cream - it makes dessert *funny*!

You seem to be confusing the terms news server with news reader or news client. The news servers are similar to email servers or web servers - you connect to them and download information to your computer using the appropriate client software.

When Comcast dropped their news servers and told all of us loyal TCI/ATT/@Home cable subscribers to go screw ourselves many people just went to the suggested Giganews.com for their news feed. I saw it coming and had an account with Individual.net for about a year earlier. Now that they've gotten greedy I've switched to Teranews.com. It is free although they require a $4 sign up fee.

Six Euro's a year is hardly greedy , esp considering they've been free for ages & mop up all the debris from all the other news dropouts.

James

I do have a newserver with my ISP (Telewest/blueyonder.co.uk), but it's not very reliable. Plus, I also have Agent installed on my laptop so I can read RAMVA in my lectures using the campus wireless... tee hee!

-- Howard Rose

1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe 1962 Austin Mini Deluxe 1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe (cars and email on website)

Individual.net is not going to be free anymore, according to them, as of next april, only fee based service. That's the one I'm using right now, so I also got to go get a new one.

Karls

Wonder why they haven't told me about that.

Jan

They say that if you had an account before they changed from DFN to Individual.net that you won't be dropped come April fools day. Of course, I had such an account but they asked me to switch to Individual.net at one point so I wouldn't count on DFN being free forever either.

Ah okay then. I'm one of the old customers.

Jan