I was excited about NTL 2mb upgrade until...

I found out that they were going to be stricter about enforcing their 1gb
per day download limit.

I know that you can subscribe to AOL through NTL Cable. I was thinking if I
take their 1mb package at £25 per month (same as NTL), what newsgroups
(binaries) do aol offer. Is it a wide selection?? I was thinking of adding a
premium news-server on top ( I reckon it might be worth it) as AOL have
unlimited downloads.

I am a heavy usenet user and AFAIK I am unable to buy additional download
limits from NTL.

What do others think of this idea (apart from AOL being the joke of the
internet)

Thanks
John

JF blurted on Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:45:43 GMT:

> I found out that they were going to be stricter about enforcing their 1gb
> per day download limit.
>
> I know that you can subscribe to AOL through NTL Cable. I was thinking if I
> take their 1mb package at £25 per month (same as NTL), what newsgroups
> (binaries) do aol offer. Is it a wide selection?? I was thinking of adding a
> premium news-server on top ( I reckon it might be worth it) as AOL have
> unlimited downloads.
>
> I am a heavy usenet user and AFAIK I am unable to buy additional download
> limits from NTL.
>
> What do others think of this idea (apart from AOL being the joke of the
> internet)
>
> Thanks
> John

AOL don't do any usenet any more, they dumped it...you would have to sub
another news server...

--
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
*Wendell Johnson*

"Ron S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1bk84hjuukdsz$.(E-Mail Removed). ..
> JF blurted on Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:45:43 GMT:
>
> > I found out that they were going to be stricter about enforcing their
1gb
> > per day download limit.
> >
> > I know that you can subscribe to AOL through NTL Cable. I was thinking
if I
> > take their 1mb package at £25 per month (same as NTL), what newsgroups
> > (binaries) do aol offer. Is it a wide selection?? I was thinking of
adding a
> > premium news-server on top ( I reckon it might be worth it) as AOL have
> > unlimited downloads.
> >
> > I am a heavy usenet user and AFAIK I am unable to buy additional
download
> > limits from NTL.
> >
> > What do others think of this idea (apart from AOL being the joke of the
> > internet)
> >
> > Thanks
> > John
>
> AOL don't do any usenet any more, they dumped it...you would have to sub
> another news server...
>
I had a feeling tha AOL wouldn't carry any good groups and was toying with
the idea of a premium service anyway.

Thanks
John

"JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I had a feeling tha AOL wouldn't carry any good groups and was toying with
> the idea of a premium service anyway.

news.individual.net is pretty good and will cost 10 euros from April which
is about £7 per annum.

Beck wrote:
|| "JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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||
||| I had a feeling tha AOL wouldn't carry any good groups and was
||| toying with the idea of a premium service anyway.
||
|| news.individual.net is pretty good and will cost 10 euros from April
|| which is about £7 per annum.

Doesn't do binaries........

--
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Director
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

"JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:i05Xd.2308$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Ron S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1bk84hjuukdsz$.(E-Mail Removed). ..
>> JF blurted on Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:45:43 GMT:
>>
>> > I found out that they were going to be stricter about enforcing their
> 1gb
>> > per day download limit.
>> >
>> > I know that you can subscribe to AOL through NTL Cable. I was thinking
> if I
>> > take their 1mb package at £25 per month (same as NTL), what newsgroups
>> > (binaries) do aol offer. Is it a wide selection?? I was thinking of
> adding a
>> > premium news-server on top ( I reckon it might be worth it) as AOL have
>> > unlimited downloads.
>> >
>> > I am a heavy usenet user and AFAIK I am unable to buy additional
> download
>> > limits from NTL.
>> >
>> > What do others think of this idea (apart from AOL being the joke of the
>> > internet)
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > John
>>
>> AOL don't do any usenet any more, they dumped it...you would have to sub
>> another news server...
>>
> I had a feeling tha AOL wouldn't carry any good groups and was toying with
> the idea of a premium service anyway.

They carried some very good groups before they desubscribed from Usenet.
Contrary to popular belief adult content was never censored by AOL.The only
drawback was the voice of Joanna Lumley repeatedly announcing to the
neighbours that "Your file has been downloaded" at 3.00am in the morning.
Getting a third party newsserver to work with AOL is not as easy as you
might think unless it is web-based like SuperNews. You first have to
configure Outlook Express to work with AOL's IMAP servers.

(kim)

"JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:rQ4Xd.4888$(E-Mail Removed)...
>I found out that they were going to be stricter about enforcing their 1gb
> per day download limit.
>
> I know that you can subscribe to AOL through NTL Cable. I was thinking if
> I
> take their 1mb package at £25 per month (same as NTL), what newsgroups
> (binaries) do aol offer. Is it a wide selection?? I was thinking of adding
> a
> premium news-server on top ( I reckon it might be worth it) as AOL have
> unlimited downloads.
>
> I am a heavy usenet user and AFAIK I am unable to buy additional download
> limits from NTL.
>
> What do others think of this idea (apart from AOL being the joke of the
> internet)

Before you can subscribe to any outside service you will need to desubscribe
from NTL and if other threads in this newsgroup are anything to go buy that
is far from straightforward.

(kim)

"kim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> "JF" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:i05Xd.2308$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> > "Ron S" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:1bk84hjuukdsz$.(E-Mail Removed). ..
> >> JF blurted on Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:45:43 GMT:
> >>
> >> > I found out that they were going to be stricter about enforcing their
> > 1gb
> >> > per day download limit.
> >> >
> >> > I know that you can subscribe to AOL through NTL Cable. I was
thinking
> > if I
> >> > take their 1mb package at £25 per month (same as NTL), what
newsgroups
> >> > (binaries) do aol offer. Is it a wide selection?? I was thinking of
> > adding a
> >> > premium news-server on top ( I reckon it might be worth it) as AOL
have
> >> > unlimited downloads.
> >> >
> >> > I am a heavy usenet user and AFAIK I am unable to buy additional
> > download
> >> > limits from NTL.
> >> >
> >> > What do others think of this idea (apart from AOL being the joke of
the
> >> > internet)
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> > John
> >>
> >> AOL don't do any usenet any more, they dumped it...you would have to
sub
> >> another news server...
> >>
> > I had a feeling tha AOL wouldn't carry any good groups and was toying
with
> > the idea of a premium service anyway.
>
> They carried some very good groups before they desubscribed from Usenet.
> Contrary to popular belief adult content was never censored by AOL.The
only
> drawback was the voice of Joanna Lumley repeatedly announcing to the
> neighbours that "Your file has been downloaded" at 3.00am in the morning.
> Getting a third party newsserver to work with AOL is not as easy as you
> might think unless it is web-based like SuperNews. You first have to
> configure Outlook Express to work with AOL's IMAP servers.
>
> (kim)
>
I'm not looking for adult content...honest :0

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 03:37:14 -0000, "kim" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Getting a third party newsserver to work with AOL is not as easy as you
>might think unless it is web-based like SuperNews. You first have to
>configure Outlook Express to work with AOL's IMAP servers.

Not so sure about this, I was using Forte Agent with
news.individual.net, when I had an aol dialup account, just put
smtp.uk.aol.com (or something like that I found it in the aol
help for setting up eudora) and it worked fine for posting to
newsgroups. It didn't work for sending email however.

Alex