Re: @#$% Google

[Anthony Lawther <alawther@spammenot.mac.com>]

David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> AppleCPM <a2@wilserv.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi, y'all!
>> 
>>     It seems that messages in this group are now appearing with a two
>> or three delay but only to people, like me, who read and post messages
>> via Google Groups.  Today, June 30th, messages posted on June 28th are
>> finally showing up.  I've learned that there are alternatives are
>> available, like Giganews.  But I can't justify spending $8 a month on
>> that particular service.
> 
> There are also free public news servers: I'm using
> eternal-september.org, but I've heard of others: aioe.org comes to mind.
> 
> There is also news.individual.net, which is not free but is much cheaper
> than giganews.
> 
> The main thing the free or very cheap services don't have is the binary
> groups but I stopped caring about them a long time ago.

I've been using aioe.org for about a year now and, for the c.s.a2 groups at
least, it works really well. 

Of course there's no reason you can't use multiple free servers if you
don't get the service you want from just one...

Regards,
Anthony