Sky and Usenet

Do Sky have an nntp server for Usenet access? I'm switch over this week
and don't want to lose access to newsgroups. If not I'll have to
subscribe to another service, but I want to get it sorted before the
switch over takes place.

--
regards, James Luff Gamertag: Lufferov
remove 'nospam' to e-mail
"There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those that understand binary, and those that don't."

James Luff wrote:
> Do Sky have an nntp server for Usenet access? I'm switch over this
> week and don't want to lose access to newsgroups. If not I'll have to
> subscribe to another service, but I want to get it sorted before the
> switch over takes place.


No Usenet.

You could try: http://www.albasani.net which is free.

http://www.motzarella.org which is also free.

http://news.individual.net €10 (Ten Euro) per year.


Was you also interested in binaries or just text?


--
60 day free DVD rental: www.southeastbirmingham.co.uk/dvd
Mobile Offers: www.southeastbirmingham.co.uk/mob
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/MovetoMetric

{{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
> James Luff wrote:
>> Do Sky have an nntp server for Usenet access? I'm switch over this
>> week and don't want to lose access to newsgroups. If not I'll have to
>> subscribe to another service, but I want to get it sorted before the
>> switch over takes place.
>
>
> No Usenet.
>
> You could try: http://www.albasani.net which is free.
>
> http://www.motzarella.org which is also free.
>
> http://news.individual.net €10 (Ten Euro) per year.
>
>
> Was you also interested in binaries or just text?

Just text, I'll go to news.individual.net I know of lots of people who
use that service and are very pleased with it.

--
regards, James Luff Gamertag: Lufferov
remove 'nospam' to e-mail
"There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those that understand binary, and those that don't."

{{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
> James Luff wrote:
>> Do Sky have an nntp server for Usenet access? I'm switch over this
>> week and don't want to lose access to newsgroups. If not I'll have to
>> subscribe to another service, but I want to get it sorted before the
>> switch over takes place.
>
>
> No Usenet.
>
> You could try: http://www.albasani.net which is free.
>
> http://www.motzarella.org which is also free.
>
> http://news.individual.net €10 (Ten Euro) per year.
>
>
> Was you also interested in binaries or just text?
>
>

Hmmm, just noticed the other two are free... anyone use them care to
post experiences? individual.net is cheap, but why pay if a free one is
available that's just as good?

Might try motzarella first and see how it goes, can always go to
individual.net later, it won't hurt to try. Unless others have tried
them before and not had a feed.


--
regards, James Luff Gamertag: Lufferov
remove 'nospam' to e-mail
"There are 10 types of people in the world:
Those that understand binary, and those that don't."

James Luff wrote:
> {{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
>> James Luff wrote:
>>> Do Sky have an nntp server for Usenet access? I'm switch over this
>>> week and don't want to lose access to newsgroups. If not I'll have
>>> to subscribe to another service, but I want to get it sorted before
>>> the switch over takes place.
>>
>>
>> No Usenet.
>>
>> You could try: http://www.albasani.net which is free.
>>
>> http://www.motzarella.org which is also free.
>>
>> http://news.individual.net €10 (Ten Euro) per year.
>>
>>
>> Was you also interested in binaries or just text?
>>
>>
>
> Hmmm, just noticed the other two are free... anyone use them care to
> post experiences? individual.net is cheap, but why pay if a free one
> is available that's just as good?
>
> Might try motzarella first and see how it goes, can always go to
> individual.net later, it won't hurt to try. Unless others have tried
> them before and not had a feed.

I've used both of the free ones, I still keep albasani.net for use of
groups not available to me via VirginMedia.

My first reply to you was through albasani.net so you could see there
were no adverts appended to the post by albasini themselves.

I've used Individual in the past too when I was on Pipex as Pipex
usegroup access was slow and I was only using it for text.


--
60 day free DVD rental: www.southeastbirmingham.co.uk/dvd
Mobile Offers: www.southeastbirmingham.co.uk/mob

On Mon, 21 May 2007 00:07:19 +0100, James Luff
<(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>{{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
>> James Luff wrote:
>>> Do Sky have an nntp server for Usenet access? I'm switch over this
>>> week and don't want to lose access to newsgroups. If not I'll have to
>>> subscribe to another service, but I want to get it sorted before the
>>> switch over takes place.
>>
>>
>> No Usenet.
>>
>> You could try: http://www.albasani.net which is free.
>>
>> http://www.motzarella.org which is also free.
>>
>> http://news.individual.net €10 (Ten Euro) per year.
>>
>>
>> Was you also interested in binaries or just text?
>>
>>
>
>Hmmm, just noticed the other two are free... anyone use them care to
>post experiences? individual.net is cheap, but why pay if a free one is
>available that's just as good?
>
>Might try motzarella first and see how it goes, can always go to
>individual.net later, it won't hurt to try. Unless others have tried
>them before and not had a feed.

The free ones are crap. I will get around to using the NIN server
soon. I used to use the Pipex text server but then ditched them as an
ISP so temporarily dropped onto aioe which frequently drops out and is
often not availabel\doesn't connect for several minutes at a time and
also limits posts per IP so I have to reboot the router from time to
time to be able to post some more, so I switched to Motzarella which
has no spam filters on their end so it kindly downloaded all the spam
that aioe and Pipex had kept out of my newsreader for me.

Basically, the free one's are OKish, but they really are crap compared
to indiviual.net.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

Lurch wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007 00:07:19 +0100, James Luff
> <(E-Mail Removed)> mused:
>
>> {{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
>>> James Luff wrote:
>>>> Do Sky have an nntp server for Usenet access? I'm switch over this
>>>> week and don't want to lose access to newsgroups. If not I'll have
>>>> to subscribe to another service, but I want to get it sorted
>>>> before the switch over takes place.
>>>
>>>
>>> No Usenet.
>>>
>>> You could try: http://www.albasani.net which is free.
>>>
>>> http://www.motzarella.org which is also free.
>>>
>>> http://news.individual.net ?10 (Ten Euro) per year.
>>>
>>>
>>> Was you also interested in binaries or just text?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm, just noticed the other two are free... anyone use them care to
>> post experiences? individual.net is cheap, but why pay if a free one
>> is available that's just as good?
>>
>> Might try motzarella first and see how it goes, can always go to
>> individual.net later, it won't hurt to try. Unless others have tried
>> them before and not had a feed.
>
> The free ones are crap. I will get around to using the NIN server
> soon. I used to use the Pipex text server but then ditched them as an
> ISP so temporarily dropped onto aioe which frequently drops out and is
> often not availabel\doesn't connect for several minutes at a time and
> also limits posts per IP so I have to reboot the router from time to
> time to be able to post some more, so I switched to Motzarella which
> has no spam filters on their end so it kindly downloaded all the spam
> that aioe and Pipex had kept out of my newsreader for me.
>
> Basically, the free one's are OKish, but they really are crap compared
> to indiviual.net.

indiviual.net is very good, but then I've found albasani.net to be very
good too, certainly worth checking out first.


--
60 day free DVD rental: www.southeastbirmingham.co.uk/dvd
Mobile Offers: www.southeastbirmingham.co.uk/mob
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/MovetoMetric

On Sun, 20 May 2007 23:57:22 GMT, "{{{{{Welcome}}}}}"
<bhx___spam@trapped___hotmail.co.uk> mused:

>Lurch wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 May 2007 00:07:19 +0100, James Luff
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> mused:
>>
>>> {{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:
>>>> James Luff wrote:
>>>>> Do Sky have an nntp server for Usenet access? I'm switch over this
>>>>> week and don't want to lose access to newsgroups. If not I'll have
>>>>> to subscribe to another service, but I want to get it sorted
>>>>> before the switch over takes place.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No Usenet.
>>>>
>>>> You could try: http://www.albasani.net which is free.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.motzarella.org which is also free.
>>>>
>>>> http://news.individual.net ?10 (Ten Euro) per year.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Was you also interested in binaries or just text?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmmm, just noticed the other two are free... anyone use them care to
>>> post experiences? individual.net is cheap, but why pay if a free one
>>> is available that's just as good?
>>>
>>> Might try motzarella first and see how it goes, can always go to
>>> individual.net later, it won't hurt to try. Unless others have tried
>>> them before and not had a feed.
>>
>> The free ones are crap. I will get around to using the NIN server
>> soon. I used to use the Pipex text server but then ditched them as an
>> ISP so temporarily dropped onto aioe which frequently drops out and is
>> often not availabel\doesn't connect for several minutes at a time and
>> also limits posts per IP so I have to reboot the router from time to
>> time to be able to post some more, so I switched to Motzarella which
>> has no spam filters on their end so it kindly downloaded all the spam
>> that aioe and Pipex had kept out of my newsreader for me.
>>
>> Basically, the free one's are OKish, but they really are crap compared
>> to indiviual.net.
>
>indiviual.net is very good, but then I've found albasani.net to be very
>good too, certainly worth checking out first.

Worth a go on that then, I'll see what happens.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

On 21 May 2007, James Luff <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>> http://www.motzarella.org which is also free.

>Hmmm, just noticed the other two are free... anyone use them care to
>post experiences? individual.net is cheap, but why pay if a free one is
>available that's just as good?

>Might try motzarella first and see how it goes, can always go to
>individual.net later, it won't hurt to try. Unless others have tried
>them before and not had a feed.

Motz works well (I've been using Usenet for at least 15 years, with Motz for
the last 6 to 8, and no problems). Compares with all the other services I
have used (Giganews, Clara, Freeserve, Astraweb, APN, and a couple more at
least). I've used TeraNews in the past but I stopped when they started
appending an advert sig. I still use some commercial (paid-for) services,
but for binaries. Giganews is through my ISP, but I want to be able to use
news without worrying which connection (2 ISPs in use here) my PC is using.

"James Luff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...

> Hmmm, just noticed the other two are free... anyone use them care to post
> experiences? individual.net is cheap, but why pay if a free one is
> available that's just as good?

This one is also free..

http://www.datemas.de/news/

It works well but there is a notice about posting being temporarily
suspended... if so this won't arrive BTW.