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

[Egan Ford <datajerk@gmail.com>]

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.