silverfox38 wrote:
On 07/17/2013 09:26, hawker wrote:
On 7/17/2013 9:10 AM, Daniel wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:
Daniel wrote:
I use Teranews.com for my Usenet account, and have two accounts
for it, free.teranews.com has my forty-odd general usenet groups,
and 69.16.185.252 (the equivalent of free.teranews.com) is for my
dozen or so computer usage groups, however.....
For the past few days, this second account has been timing out,
so I've got no access to these groups.
The first account works, but (as you're probably aware) there's
very little activity on any of the general groups, some but not
much![snip]
You might wish to try other free USENET servers.
Two list of free servers are:
http://www.newzbot.com/
http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/
Two providers I've used occasionally and have generally good thins
about
http://www.aioe.org/
http://www.eternal-september.org/
I personally use the "text only" option of supernews.com - a paid
server
but reliable and trouble free.
Thanks for the suggestions, Richard. Eternal-September is an oft
mentioned UseNet server, which I might have to investigate if I cannot
get my free.teranews.com (or rather the 69.16.185.252) account going
again!
I paid $3.75 for my account on the server, but as that was about 10
years ago, I suppose I cannot bitch too much!!
If your needing text only I highly recommend news.individual.net
http://www.individual.net/
It was free for years but now they charge 10 Euros a year $1,10 a month.
The retention and speed is great with no limits and once I tried it for
that price it wasn't worth screwing around with free servers anymore.
I have been using it since the mid 1990s and never once had a problem
except in 1998 when they changed some settings on the server and I had
Netscape configured wrong.
I used to have an account with Teranews a few years back and if I had
any problems with it, I contacted the owner/manager on their help line
and had pretty good luck with it. Have you contacted them about your
problem?? Don`t remember the address, think it was included with the
initial registration??
HTH
silverfox38
my sister user @terra.com two 'r'
sincerely
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