free newsgroup service

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:54:49 -0500 Jack wrote:

| Comcast has just announced that it will no longer offer free newsgroup
| service as of october 25th. Can anyone reccommend a free newsgroup
| service?

If you go with a freebie service, be sure to check their reputation with
regard to blocking outgoing spam. These services tend to be home base for
most Usenet spammers. They like the price. The alternative is to choose
a pay-for provider. Yeah, I know people will hate paying more and Comcast
didn't lower their price to make up for the reduced service. What I do know
is that more people than just myself do block some whole Usenet providers
because of the endless spam spewing out from them.

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| by the abuse department, bellsouth.net is blocked. If you post to |
| Usenet from these places, find another Usenet provider ASAP. |
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phil-news-nospam wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:54:49 -0500 Jack wrote:

| Comcast has just announced that it will no longer offer free newsgroup
| service as of october 25th. Can anyone reccommend a free newsgroup
| service?

If you go with a freebie service, be sure to check their reputation with
regard to blocking outgoing spam. These services tend to be home base for
most Usenet spammers. They like the price. The alternative is to choose
a pay-for provider. Yeah, I know people will hate paying more and Comcast
didn't lower their price to make up for the reduced service. What I do know
is that more people than just myself do block some whole Usenet providers
because of the endless spam spewing out from them.

I've read a couple Comcasters that claim to have called Comcast and asked
for a reduction of their rates because of the loss in service and gotten
one. Five bucks a month or so, IIRC. FWIW.


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In message . net,
Blinky the Shark writes

blocks all posts from Google)


So do I, it's not necessarily a bad thing!

It certainly cuts a lot of the rubbish out of this group.

P.S. Apologies to any genuine posters who use Google and whose words of
wisdom I no longer get to see, my loss no doubt.

Regards,
--
Neil
"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in
our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all
alike founded on fables and mythology.." - Thomas Jefferson

Jack wrote:
Comcast has just announced that it will no longer offer free newsgroup
service as of october 25th. Can anyone reccommend a free newsgroup
service?

I had to switch, and am now using free.teranews.com. There is a
negligible sign up fee of I believe $5, but otherwise free. I didn't
realize there were so many others and no idea how they compare but I'm
happy with this one so far.
Dave Cohen
** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Blinky the Shark wrote in
news
phil-news-nospam wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:54:49 -0500 Jack wrote:

| Comcast has just announced that it will no longer offer free
| newsgroup service as of october 25th. Can anyone reccommend a free
| newsgroup service?

If you go with a freebie service, be sure to check their reputation
with regard to blocking outgoing spam. These services tend to be
home base for most Usenet spammers. They like the price. The
alternative is to choose a pay-for provider. Yeah, I know people
will hate paying more and Comcast didn't lower their price to make up
for the reduced service. What I do know is that more people than
just myself do block some whole Usenet providers because of the
endless spam spewing out from them.

I've read a couple Comcasters that claim to have called Comcast and
asked for a reduction of their rates because of the loss in service
and gotten one. Five bucks a month or so, IIRC. FWIW.

Thanks for suggesting motzarella. It's working just fine.

Jack wrote:

Blinky the Shark wrote in
news
phil-news-nospam wrote:

On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:54:49 -0500 Jack wrote:

| Comcast has just announced that it will no longer offer free
| newsgroup service as of october 25th. Can anyone reccommend a free
| newsgroup service?

If you go with a freebie service, be sure to check their reputation
with regard to blocking outgoing spam. These services tend to be
home base for most Usenet spammers. They like the price. The
alternative is to choose a pay-for provider. Yeah, I know people
will hate paying more and Comcast didn't lower their price to make up
for the reduced service. What I do know is that more people than
just myself do block some whole Usenet providers because of the
endless spam spewing out from them.

I've read a couple Comcasters that claim to have called Comcast and
asked for a reduction of their rates because of the loss in service
and gotten one. Five bucks a month or so, IIRC. FWIW.

Thanks for suggesting motzarella. It's working just fine.

You're welcome. Enjoy.

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Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org
Need a new news feed? http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html

Neil wrote:

In message . net,
Blinky the Shark writes

blocks all posts from Google)


So do I, it's not necessarily a bad thing!

As do I. That's a feature of that server, not an issue.

It certainly cuts a lot of the rubbish out of this group.

And the rest of them.

P.S. Apologies to any genuine posters who use Google and whose words of
wisdom I no longer get to see, my loss no doubt.

Insignificant loss. See link in my sig.


--
Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org

In message .net,
Blinky the Shark writes

P.S. Apologies to any genuine posters who use Google and whose words of
wisdom I no longer get to see, my loss no doubt.

Insignificant loss. See link in my sig.



Noted many moons ago.

Regards,
--
Neil
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins

Neil wrote:

In message .net,
Blinky the Shark writes

P.S. Apologies to any genuine posters who use Google and whose words of
wisdom I no longer get to see, my loss no doubt.

Insignificant loss. See link in my sig.

Noted many moons ago.

I feel so old. And so redundant.


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Blinky
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://improve-usenet.org
Need a new news feed? http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html

Jack wrote:
Comcast has just announced that it will no longer offer free newsgroup
service as of october 25th. Can anyone reccommend a free newsgroup
service?

I know a lot of folks will scream, but the easiest to set up and use is
Google Groups. It is a web-based interface. The problem is that many
spammers have used the interface to post a LOT of spam on newsgroups,
and Google has done little about it. So on some newsgroups, people will
not reply to messages posted via GG. I stopped using it because of
that. However, if you want to try it, go to Google and search "google
groups".

In my case, my ISP still leaves the news server operating, just will not
do service/support to overcome any problems that occur. So it is usable.

I tried a lot of the third party servers. I will not pay extra for
Usenet, so restricted myself to free ones, and did not find one that I
was really happy with, but I am sure I did not try anywhere near ALL of
them.