Re: <OT> What service are people using to access CSA2?

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <1141105226.762854.10110@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>,
 "PZ" <skierpaul@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've been using the Google usenet service for the past year for CSA2
> access, but it seems to me that messages are not getting through.
> (Unless there were really only 2 messages posted today)
> 
> I don't need binary or file capabilities, I just want reliable access
> to Text newsgroups - particularly comp.*.  Any suggestions for
> free/cheap newservices/servers that deliver the goods.  I really don't
> need 20GB/month, I don't even think I need 2GB/month.  I'd prefer web
> based or telnet, but I'll take a POP/SMTP service if I have to.
> 
> Thanks... maybe I'll have the privlage of reading some responses.

YottaNews has a free account, I think it's 1GB/month, but it doesn't 
allow posting.  Limit of 1 connection at a time to the news server.
<http://www.yottanews.com/>

TeraNews has a 50MB/day account available for a ontime $3.95 signup fee, 
and I think they allow posting.  Limit of 1 connection at a time to the 
news server.
<http://www.teranews.com/>

There's also BubbaNews which also has a 50MB/day free account, but I 
couldn't get into mine a while back when I tried over a couple of 
months.  Haven't investigated it since then.
<http://www.bubbanews.com/>

TeraNews and BubbaNews are resellers for the same commercial news 
server, but I don't remember who at this time.

They'll both have only a limited archive of messages, but should be good 
for day to day reading.

Now me personally, I do most of my usenet through my ISP.  They give me 
no volume limits with speeds running upwards of 400K/sec.  But they only 
have a week's worth of messages in the text newsgroups.

Greg B.

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