Sentech 'Yes We Have No News Server'

[LoneGunman]

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[Jhbgirl]

Is anyone able to access news.is.co.za ? I was able to before we went on mywireless, but we weren't with IS.

[AcidRaZor]

Hmmm... i see no need for news servers seeing as you already see the crap on teevee anyway... who cares about politics, TAKE IT OFF!!!! [:p] [:D]

[PURE]

One url for you

http://www.easynews.com/

I used them for a year when I had isdn,
Best bloody news server I came across, SA servers could never touch them.

$9.98 x 7 = R70 a month

Well worth it.

[Perdition]

noone... I sincerely hope you're joking [;)]

For those who don't know what Usenet is, it is basically a massive global forum (think MyADSL on steriods) where just about any topic of interest you can imagine is covered. For a lot of people access to news groups is just as important as access to e-mail.

[Jerrek]

http://www.giganews.com/

Giganews is much better I found. 10 GB for $12 a month. I've been a member for a very long time. I mostly use my ISP's server, but they are always incomplete and I need "fills" from my Giganews subscription.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/giganews.jpg

[CodeMaster]

I'm with PURE on this one. I have been with EasyNews for a couple months now, and even although I can use IS news servers, they are not worth nothing compared to EasyNews.

Their retentions are EXCELLENT for both text AND binaries, and they have a huge number of topics (round 230,000 I think).
With 64k ISDN, I am downloading at a constant 7.5KB, which is almost full bandwidth.

If you are serious about Usenet, then I can definately recommend them. (no affiliation)

[beerygaz]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Jhbgirl</i>
<br />Is anyone able to access news.is.co.za ? I was able to before we went on mywireless, but we weren't with IS.
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It's likely you were one of IS's 2nd tier ISP's that IS make their news server avaialble to.

[Wrayth]

Get addicted to IRC... then you won't have time for Usenet any more :P

Arm thyself with knowledge. Girt thyself with wisdom.

[Claymore]

I would love to read my favourite newsgroups - and Google Groups just doesn't cut it. I have a private login to a news server in Germany, but it's tediously slow to download a couple of thousand messages from high-traffic groups per day.

[Jhbgirl]

Can you read Easynews and Giganews in Outlook Express?

[CodeMaster]

Jhbgirl,
Why would you WANT to use Outlook Express??? [:D]

Get a REAL newsreader [:)]

[Jhbgirl]

...coz I READ the news...not download everything in sight :P
Anyway, we signed up with athena news...they cost $5.95 p/m and have a 1GB download limit per day.

http://www.athenanews.com

[CodeMaster]

Jhbgirl,
I would still recommend ANYTHING other than Outlook Express for news, be it for text or binaries.
Agent for text - http://www.tucows.com/preview/195240.html
NewsPro for binaries - http://www.tucows.com/preview/195238.html

Outlook Express really sux at being a news reader. There is a free version of Agent, aptly named FreeAgent [:D]

[Jhbgirl]

Alrighty, I will go check those out ;)

[timo]

had no idea people still actually used news servers

[Karnaugh]

I know few ISP's that bother really maintaining an NNTP server, besides that, why would they need to?

RSS Dude, get with the program ;) (See NNTP to RSS, SharpReader etc.)

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"Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak."

NetLink Research

[Jerrek]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by timo</i>
<br />had no idea people still actually used news servers
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I do, mostly for downloads. alt.binaries.&lt;insert favorite tv-show here&gt;

Giganews has no cap on download speed.



For text reading, Outlook Express is fine. However, if you're going to download multipart binaries, get Xnews.

Xnews is the very best reader out there. http://xnews.newsguy.com/ I've tried many others, but few come to the ease of use of Xnews.

<font color="blue"><b>The clock is ticking................... <i>1,174 kb/s</i> - I brake for no one</b></font id="blue">
http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_stuff/cogeco.jpg

[Perdition]

I agree Xnews is the best reader. I switched to it after NewsX was discontinued as it had the closest functionality and haven't looked back. Best of all it's free [:)]