anyone know if sky carry newsgroups?

I've ordered sky £21 six mix package and as soon as its installed i'll be
adding the £5 monthly for the 8 meg broadband, anyone know if i'll be able
to use my outlook express to view the newsgroups, in the same way as i can
with ntl right now? (moving into new property with no ntl in the area).

stepson wrote:
> I've ordered sky £21 six mix package and as soon as its installed i'll be
> adding the £5 monthly for the 8 meg broadband, anyone know if i'll be able
> to use my outlook express to view the newsgroups, in the same way as i can
> with ntl right now? (moving into new property with no ntl in the area).

AIUI Sky have no Usenet server.

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On 04 Feb 2007, "stepson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>anyone know if I'll be able to use my outlook express to view the newsgroups

Don't think so. You'll find someone using Sky whose posts come with path
.....! ams.xsnews.nl!news.germany.com!news.datemas.de!not-for-mail
IE not using a UK server at all.

Depends on how much traffic you want as to best options for you... $2.50 can
buy 5 GB/month if you hunt around.

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Mark Carver
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>stepson wrote:
>> I've ordered sky £21 six mix package and as soon as its installed
>>i'll be adding the £5 monthly for the 8 meg broadband, anyone know if
>>i'll be able to use my outlook express to view the newsgroups, in the
>>same way as i can with ntl right now? (moving into new property with
>>no ntl in the area).
>
>AIUI Sky have no Usenet server.
>
but yes they 'carry' newsgroups if you subscribe to a 3rd party usenet
server such as www.individual.net or that provided by www.clara.net

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dave @ stejonda

Just wanna have access to places like this where i can do research on
whatever i have questions about, maybe the odd 'pictures' newsgroup now and
again wouldn't go amiss, hmm could clock up a few megabyte there!!


"NoNeedToKnow" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On 04 Feb 2007, "stepson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>anyone know if I'll be able to use my outlook express to view the
>>newsgroups
>
> Don't think so. You'll find someone using Sky whose posts come with path
> ....! ams.xsnews.nl!news.germany.com!news.datemas.de!not-for-mail
> IE not using a UK server at all.
>
> Depends on how much traffic you want as to best options for you... $2.50
> can
> buy 5 GB/month if you hunt around.

On 04 Feb 2007, "stepson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Just wanna have access to places like this where i can do research on
>whatever i have questions about, maybe the odd 'pictures' newsgroup now
>and again wouldn't go amiss, hmm could clock up a few megabyte there!!

If you want cheap (near to free, given US$/pound exchange rate) then try
TeraNews, but be aware it adds a signature advertising TeraNews... or,
if there's a deal on, www.news.astraweb.com 90 GB for $25 (without a
time limit on using it) will give you lots of text groups, and quite
a good quota for binaries, without costing a lot... $2.50/month from
some other service will give you 50 GB for the same cost, and each 5 GB
allowance will be valid only for a month, use it or lose it... so might
cost you $25 for a total far less than 50 GB... I use Astraweb as backup
and TeraNews for incidental access, while my ISP (Eclipse) offers GigaNews
as part of my service (no Easynet service here, and I don't use Sky anyway)

<http://www.usenetbinaries.com/> might also be worth trying (for free view
of different thumbnails off the various groups, so you can see before you
download the full post off a proper news server... 1 MB of d/l a day for
the free account on usenetbinaries, so thumbnails are about the limit)

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USENET news service ? <http://tinyurl.com/3rjw4>
(basic a/c under US$5 other plans at various monthly fees)

On 04 Feb 2007, NoNeedToKnow <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>USENET news service ? <http://tinyurl.com/3rjw4>
>(basic a/c under US$5 other plans at various monthly fees)

I should make it clear the 'basic account' is a once only fee,
to give 50 MB a day for downloading...

Bottom of the list on the subscription page...
US$ 3.95 (about 2 quid)... checks user is 18+, I expect.

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On 04 Feb 2007, I wrote:

>$2.50/month from some other service will give you 50 GB for the same cost,
>and each 5 GB allowance will be valid only for a month, use it or lose it...

I just tested the service I was thinking of (newsgroup-binaries.com) and see
it does not allow posting... so only suitable for downloaders, and still the
need for another if one wants to post... (though, on the other hand, may be
of interest for someone who wants to be sure of anonymity :-)

"stepson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've ordered sky £21 six mix package and as soon as its installed i'll be
> adding the £5 monthly for the 8 meg broadband, anyone know if i'll be able
> to use my outlook express to view the newsgroups, in the same way as i can
> with ntl right now? (moving into new property with no ntl in the area).

No, I use nntp.aioe.org and its Free

"dave @ stejonda" <no$spam!delete&abuse%(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, Mark Carver
> <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>stepson wrote:
>>> I've ordered sky £21 six mix package and as soon as its installed i'll
>>> be adding the £5 monthly for the 8 meg broadband, anyone know if i'll
>>> be able to use my outlook express to view the newsgroups, in the same
>>> way as i can with ntl right now? (moving into new property with no ntl
>>> in the area).
>>
>>AIUI Sky have no Usenet server.
>>
> but yes they 'carry' newsgroups if you subscribe to a 3rd party usenet
> server such as www.individual.net or that provided by www.clara.net
>
> --
> dave @ stejonda

Don't forget that Clara log everything and if you start accessing the wrong
groups, or groups they will not switch off due to illegal content, they will
report you to police. This is mainly for people that prefer uncensored
newsfeeds.
If you just prefer text newsgroups, there are plenty of free and reliable
ones about but you need to do a search in Google. Don't pay for a server
when there is no need.