Newsgroup providers

[GT98]

Can anyone suggest a good newsgroup provider that keeps messages longer then 48 hours and doesnt cost all that much?

[isochar]

www.teranews.com (They are anonymous!)

Have an account that costs a one-time fee of $3.50 for 50megs a day.

[Tom]

I've been using Easy News for a while and have had good luck with them.
The file retention period is 30 days and I seldom see
files with parts missing.

[Tomasz]

If you are a heavy user, the best deal is from usenetserver.com:
$14.45 a month (using "newsbin" coupon code) for 20GB per day at 2 Megabits/second speed. Their retention ranges from 6-10 days on binary groups and is 238 days for text groups.
see these links:

http://www.djii.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID2&conf=DCConfID4

http://www.usenetserver.com

https://signup.webusenet.com/

Easynews is cool too and has great retention (~20 to 30 days), but it only offers 6GB per month for $10.

Some isp news servers are pretty good too (if you are fortunate enough to be their customer): cox.net gives you access to 3 servers (each allowing 4 connections at 384 kbits/sec) upto 3 Mbit/sec total! with 5-7 days retention.

[VigilAnt]

Easy News is probably the best out there, at least in my experience it is.

VigilAnt

[VJ]

mailgate, and it's free

http://www.mailgate.org

Not sure how long the messages are kept though, but you can read them both on a website or with a regular newreader.


Jörg

[DentyCracker]

Easynews rocks. Been using it for over 2 years. 6GB is plenty. I hardly ever go over, plus if u want more u just pay for it.

[Victorian]

Re: Newsgroup providers

Originally posted by GT98
Can anyone suggest a good newsgroup provider that keeps messages longer then 48 hours and doesnt cost all that much?

I've been using Newscene (www.newscene.com) for about 1 1/2 years. Great speeds (I average around 230 - 270 kilobytes/sec on most days) and retention (roughly 7 to 12 days on most binary groups and about 21 days for text groups).

They have a number of different pricing plans (I use the 120 gigs or 3 month plan myself).