Good free news services

I just received an email from news.individual.net (the old news.dfn.de)
that it will charge an annual fee as of 1 April.

Can anyone recommend another *good* free service?

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:13:28 -0800, JR
wrote:

I just received an email from news.individual.net (the old news.dfn.de)
that it will charge an annual fee as of 1 April.

Can anyone recommend another *good* free service?


On the other hand its only10 Euros a year.


g.c.

George Cleveland wrote in
:

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:13:28 -0800, JR
wrote:

I just received an email from news.individual.net (the old news.dfn.de)
that it will charge an annual fee as of 1 April.

Can anyone recommend another *good* free service?


On the other hand its only10 Euros a year.


g.c.


By April, that might be $100 US

Scott

George Cleveland wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:13:28 -0800, JR
wrote:

I just received an email from news.individual.net (the old
news.dfn.de) that it will charge an annual fee as of 1 April.

Can anyone recommend another *good* free service?

On the other hand its only10 Euros a year.

I finally gave up on the free NNTP services - too spotty. Most ISPs have
a contract with one of the news services and don't house their own
servers. The ISP I use at work has a month-to-month agreement with
giganews for so much bandwidth from the 21st of one month to the 20th of
the next. Every month around the 12th or so, us NNTP users were SOL
until the 21st because they had used their allotment. Since roff is
*far* too important to miss, I happily pay $4.95/month to supernews. 10
Euros a year sounds like a great bargain, and it gives them some
incentive to keep things running.

YMMV.
--
TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:01:42 -0500, "Tim J."
wrote:


I finally gave up on the free NNTP services - too spotty. Most ISPs have
a contract with one of the news services and don't house their own
servers.


Scott Seidman glommed me on to the one I'm using now.
It's free and it's been very reliable. It did take about 10
days before my account was activated.

"GregP" wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:01:42 -0500, "Tim J."
wrote:


I finally gave up on the free NNTP services - too spotty. Most ISPs have
a contract with one of the news services and don't house their own
servers.


Scott Seidman glommed me on to the one I'm using now.
It's free and it's been very reliable. It did take about 10
days before my account was activated.

Which one is that? I use individual.net also, but have not gotten the email
about charging a fee yet.

--riverman

GregP wrote in
:

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:01:42 -0500, "Tim J."
wrote:


I finally gave up on the free NNTP services - too spotty. Most ISPs have
a contract with one of the news services and don't house their own
servers.


Scott Seidman glommed me on to the one I'm using now.
It's free and it's been very reliable. It did take about 10
days before my account was activated.

Alas, this is the one that's pulling their free accounts. Still, 10 euros
a year is very reasonable for a service this reliable.

Scott

On 20 Feb 2005 15:58:42 GMT, Scott Seidman
wrote:


Alas, this is the one that's pulling their free accounts. Still, 10 euros
a year is very reasonable for a service this reliable.


It is ? How did you find out ? They haven't sent me any requests
for money.

George Cleveland wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:13:28 -0800, JR
wrote:

I just received an email from news.individual.net (the old
news.dfn.de) that it will charge an annual fee as of 1 April.

Can anyone recommend another *good* free service?

On the other hand its only10 Euros a year.

I finally gave up on the free NNTP services - too spotty. Most ISPs have
a contract with one of the news services and don't house their own
servers. The ISP I use at work has a month-to-month agreement with
giganews for so much bandwidth from the 21st of one month to the 20th of
the next. Every month around the 12th or so, us NNTP users were SOL
until the 21st because they had used their allotment. Since roff is
*far* too important to miss, I happily pay $4.95/month to supernews. 10
Euros a year sounds like a great bargain, and it gives them some
incentive to keep things running.

YMMV.
--
TL,
Tim
------------------------
http://css.sbcma.com/timj

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:13:28 -0800, JR
wrote:

I just received an email from news.individual.net (the old news.dfn.de)
that it will charge an annual fee as of 1 April.

Can anyone recommend another *good* free service?


On the other hand its only10 Euros a year.


g.c.