Euro1net and NNTP

After weeks of saying that they were 'working to upgrade the news server',
it still doesn't work and there is now no mention of it in their FAQs,
which used to give its URL.

It seems that they have given up on NNTP.

Which really pisses me off, because I carefully checked that there was such
a beast before giving them my money.

--
Joe Soap.
JUNK is stuff that you keep for 20 years,
then throw away a week before you need it.

On 5 Aug 2006, Joe Soap <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote:

>It seems that they have given up on NNTP.

>Which really pisses me off, because I carefully checked that there was such
>a beast before giving them my money.

They're not the first (and won't be the last) ISP that has decided to withdraw
from offering news access, or binary newsgroups. At the moment Astraweb has a
deal on <http://www.news.astraweb.com/> where you can buy 90 GB for US$ 25 and
it has no "expiry" time. It might even work out cheaper than using NIN if you
use mostly text groups. Alternatively for binaries, some use newsguy.com, and
there are a range of others, from US$ 2.50/month (5 GB monthly limit) to $6 (a
2 GB/day limit) and up to about $15 (unlimited traffic per month - watch for a
limit form your ISP though :-) Good luck! Peter Morgan.

Joe Soap wrote:
> After weeks of saying that they were 'working to upgrade the news server',
> it still doesn't work and there is now no mention of it in their FAQs,
> which used to give its URL.
>
> It seems that they have given up on NNTP.
>
> Which really pisses me off, because I carefully checked that there was such
> a beast before giving them my money.
>
> --
> Joe Soap.


I am some what annoyed too because I joined because they had newsgroups
so I mailed their support and got the reply:-

"Euro1Net has decided to not provide newsgroup access now. I\'m sorry
for the inconvenienced this might have caused you.

There are various other servers and news services available on the web
either free or subscription-based if newsgroup access is important to
you."

In response to what Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> posted in
news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com:

> Joe Soap wrote:
>> After weeks of saying that they were 'working to upgrade the news
>> server', it still doesn't work and there is now no mention of it in
>> their FAQs, which used to give its URL.
>>
>> It seems that they have given up on NNTP.
>>
>> Which really pisses me off, because I carefully checked that there
>> was such a beast before giving them my money.
>>
>> --
>> Joe Soap.
>
>
> I am some what annoyed too because I joined because they had
> newsgroups so I mailed their support and got the reply:-
>
> "Euro1Net has decided to not provide newsgroup access now. I\'m sorry
> for the inconvenienced this might have caused you.
>
> There are various other servers and news services available on the web
> either free or subscription-based if newsgroup access is important to
> you."

Bastards. There *are* free servers to download from e.g. Freetext, but the
only one I know of that allows posting is Gazeta. That one is Polish!

--
Joe Soap.
JUNK is stuff that you keep for 20 years,
then throw away a week before you need it.

In news:Xns9816E1C526AB3tityifvbdfgvbzdfdf@127.0.0.1,
Joe Soap <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> opined loudly:
> In response to what Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> posted in
> news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com:
>
>> Joe Soap wrote:
>>> After weeks of saying that they were 'working to upgrade the news
>>> server', it still doesn't work and there is now no mention of it in
>>> their FAQs, which used to give its URL.
>>>
>>> It seems that they have given up on NNTP.
>>>
>>> Which really pisses me off, because I carefully checked that there
>>> was such a beast before giving them my money.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joe Soap.
>>
>>
>> I am some what annoyed too because I joined because they had
>> newsgroups so I mailed their support and got the reply:-
>>
>> "Euro1Net has decided to not provide newsgroup access now. I\'m
>> sorry for the inconvenienced this might have caused you.
>>
>> There are various other servers and news services available on the
>> web either free or subscription-based if newsgroup access is
>> important to you."
>
> Bastards. There *are* free servers to download from e.g. Freetext,
> but the only one I know of that allows posting is Gazeta. That one is
> Polish!

Try "aioe.org" its free but posting is restricted to 25 per day.. ...
better than nothing
--

Yddap

Joe Soap wrote:
> In response to what Steve <(E-Mail Removed)> posted in
> news:(E-Mail Removed) oups.com:
>
>> Joe Soap wrote:
>>> After weeks of saying that they were 'working to upgrade the news
>>> server', it still doesn't work and there is now no mention of it in
>>> their FAQs, which used to give its URL.
>>>
>>> It seems that they have given up on NNTP.
>>>
>>> Which really pisses me off, because I carefully checked that there
>>> was such a beast before giving them my money.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joe Soap.
>>
>>
>> I am some what annoyed too because I joined because they had
>> newsgroups so I mailed their support and got the reply:-
>>
>> "Euro1Net has decided to not provide newsgroup access now. I\'m
>> sorry for the inconvenienced this might have caused you.
>>
>> There are various other servers and news services available on the
>> web either free or subscription-based if newsgroup access is
>> important to you."
>
> Bastards. There *are* free servers to download from e.g. Freetext,
> but the only one I know of that allows posting is Gazeta. That one is
> Polish!

For a free text only server try nntp.aioe.org
--
Adrian