Orange News Server?

A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but he is on Orange,
having previously been Freeserve and then Wanadoo and wants to know whether
they have a news server and, if so, what is it called? He used to use
usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but news.freeserve.com doesn't
work anymore.
--
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)

"Keith Willcocks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but
> he is on Orange, having previously been Freeserve and
> then Wanadoo and wants to know whether they have a news
> server and, if so, what is it called? He used to use
> usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but
> news.freeserve.com doesn't work anymore.

They no longer have their own news server. I am also on the same system
and use news.individual.net which although not free is very reliable and
worth every penny of 10 euros per year.

More info at http://news.individual.net


Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Keith Willcocks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>> A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but
>> he is on Orange, having previously been Freeserve and
>> then Wanadoo and wants to know whether they have a news
>> server and, if so, what is it called? He used to use
>> usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but
>> news.freeserve.com doesn't work anymore.
>
> They no longer have their own news server. I am also on the same system
> and use news.individual.net which although not free is very reliable and
> worth every penny of 10 euros per year.
>
> More info at http://news.individual.net
>


Thanks Ivor. I will pass this on to him (for obvious reasons he won't see
it himself).
--
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living!)

"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Keith Willcocks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:6K-(E-Mail Removed)
>> A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but
>> he is on Orange, having previously been Freeserve and
>> then Wanadoo and wants to know whether they have a news
>> server and, if so, what is it called? He used to use
>> usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but
>> news.freeserve.com doesn't work anymore.
>
> They no longer have their own news server. I am also on the same system
> and use news.individual.net which although not free is very reliable and
> worth every penny of 10 euros per year.
>
> More info at http://news.individual.net
>
>
> Ivor

Agreed - cheap and mega-fast!
Text-only, though.

George

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:57:57 -0000, [Keith Willcocks] said :-

>A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but he is on Orange,
>having previously been Freeserve and then Wanadoo and wants to know whether
>they have a news server and, if so, what is it called? He used to use
>usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but news.freeserve.com doesn't
>work anymore.

Wanadoo closed their news service last March

On 31 Oct 2006 21:01, Spin Dryer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On 31 Oct 2006, [Keith Willcocks] said :-

>>news.freeserve.com doesn't work anymore.

>Wanadoo closed their news service last March

As someone else has pointed out, NIN is text only. Last time I looked,
www.news.astraweb.com had a deal offering 90GB of downloads for US$ 25
(they don't count downloading headers, and the quota doesn't expire in
a month like many monthly schemes, or in 6 months, or whatever... I've
about 150 GB left right now :-) Could last a lifetime for a text only
user, for a bit more than double the cost of NIN-for-a-year... but can
also offer around 35 days of binaries (depends on NG, I suspect).

"Keith Willcocks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but he is on
>Orange, having previously been Freeserve and then Wanadoo and wants to
>know whether they have a news server and, if so, what is it called?
>He used to use usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but
>news.freeserve.com doesn't work anymore.

Try
news.svr.pol.co.uk
Was workin when I was with Orange.

"Keith Willcocks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:6K-(E-Mail Removed)...
>A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but he is on Orange,
>having previously been Freeserve and then Wanadoo and wants to know whether
>they have a news server and, if so, what is it called? He used to use
>usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but news.freeserve.com doesn't
>work anymore.

Handy site for comparing Usenet feed services:
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=2

On 31 Oct 2006, Spin Dryer <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Wanadoo closed their news service last March

I should have said (but followed up about NIN being text only) a big
"thank you for the reminder"... I remember seeing someone posted about
it in the newsgroup, but it's difficult to track what all ISPs are offering
especially when they're an ISP one has never used (or is not using now!)

"Gonz" <T o p @ S e c r e t . c o m> wrote in message
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> "Keith Willcocks" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6K-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>A friend knows I use usenet and wants to do the same but he is on Orange,
>>having previously been Freeserve and then Wanadoo and wants to know
>>whether they have a news server and, if so, what is it called? He used to
>>use usenet in the days when Orange was Freeserve but news.freeserve.com
>>doesn't work anymore.
>
> Try
> news.svr.pol.co.uk
> Was workin when I was with Orange.
>
I addition I use the following with Orange
news.readfreenews.net
nntp.aioe.org
news.microsoft.com
Blair