Re: Repost from outside of Google: Google Groups woes again.

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-02-06 10:31:50 -0700, Linards Ticmanis said:
> 
>> On 02/06/2012 05:51 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
>>> Usually when Google Usenet Groups has a problem it's that posts from
>>> outside of Google's Usenet service take a long time to appear.  Now I
>>> am seeing the opposite.  The news server that I use from my ISP is
>>> getting posts from everywhere but Google.
>>>>> Anyone else seeing this?
>>> Yes indeed. It's all missing from news.arcor.de. So I guess Google is
>> the culprit, as usual.
>>> Dear Google Groups users: that means currently us who don't usually go
>> there (except for search purposes) can't read anything you're posting.
>> Please consider posting from somewhere else.
>>> Although I guess I'm behind the times in still thinking of Google as
>> nothing more than a slightly glorified search engine...
> 
> I know that this has been discussed before, perhaps its time to discuss again.
> 
> What are the alternatives?  What are others using?  If using an NNTP
> server, what client on what OS?  If web-based, URL.  Thanks.
> 
> My list:
> 
> Web:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/topics
> 
> 
> NNTP Server:
> 
> news.xmission.com
> 
> 
> NNTP Client/Browser:
> 
> nn (OS/X and UNIX), used to love in the '80s/'90s, now prefer GUI clients
> (better fonts for readability)
> 
> Xnttp (OS/X), Ok, not actively developed.  Minor annoyances.
> 
> Unison (OS/X), nice, but for ~$30 US you'd think they would have a spell
> checker.  Actively developed.
> 
> NewsTap (iOS iPad and iPhone), Not bad, only iOS option.  Actively developed.

Server: Giganews

Windows client: Thunderbird

iOS client: Newstap

All works well as far as I can tell...

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon