Re: Newsgroup access

[D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com>]

Garberstreet Electronics wrote:
> "D Finnigan" <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote in message 
> news:h7m454$t7d$2@news.eternal-september.org...
> > magnusfalkirk wrote:
> > > Here's one possibility: http://macgui.com/usenet/ it's read only at 
> > > the moment but at least you can get access to the newsgroups.
> >
> > I would like to add posting abilities, but unfortunately, the news 
> > server which I suck from is read-only, so no go. :-( 
>
> https://secure.giganews.com/signup/
> has plans from $2.99-$14.99 per month, the 2 highest ones are special 
> pricing. I use the $7.99 one, and it works fine, and doesn't break me.
> Why not give it a look, at least?
> Bill Garber of Garberstreet Electronics
> http://www.garberstreet.com

Unfortunately, if I were to use their service to provide posting access 
for people on my site, then that would violate the GigaNews TOS. Same 
for Eternal September.

The only other 2 solutions which I've thought of would be to require 
each person enter his/her details for a Usenet server which allows 
posting. Unfortunately, this would require me to store usernames and 
passwords, which is a bit of a drawback.

The second solution would be for me to set up my own Usenet server, 
which is something I'd like to do, but also has a few hitches I'd have 
to get over first.