Main Area and Open Discussion > General Software Discussion

Alternatives to Google Groups for Usenet?

(1/2) > >>

JennyB:
Does anyone remember when ISPs provided feeds to hundreds of newsgroups?  Google Groups is not the same as a dedicated reader such as Free Agent, but I can't find a server these days.  :mad:

A lot of the old groups seem to be dying, but I'm still subscribed to comp.lang.forth, soc.religion.quaker, talk.origins and soc.history.what-if.

f0dder:
Hm, both my former (and the largest) Danish ISP, TDC/TeleDanmark, has binary as well as (faster and more stable) text-only groups, and my current ISP CyberCity does as well. Are ISPs really going so cheap-ass that they don't offer newsfeeds? :O

Otherwise you have the option of one of the commercial feed providers... dunno how much they cost, and I have the impression their main purpose of existance is ware^H^H^H^Hbinary groups.

app103:
You might want to try here:

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/

Darwin:
My Canadian ISP (Telus) provides me with access to over 94,000 newsgroups. Like f0dder, I am amazed that your ISP doesn't supply newsfeeds as well.

justice:
http://www.news.astraweb.com/plans.html
$10 for 25Gb of downloads, that's a lot of usenet posts if you are not downloading, so basically that's $10 for life then as it never expires. Headers are not counted towards your downloads

(btw i'm just a happy user, just to make sure -- i'm sure there are other services like this too but this is the one i'm using)

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page