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hi all
now plusnet are stopping with the newsgroups well binary that is im looking
for a different isp, im looking at claranet are they still as good as people
use to say about them i know they are more expensive but the don't have a
usage cap any info much appreciated




cloggie99

im using f2s without problems. recently they even added 3 groups at my
request
prices start around £12.99 capped which is good i think.

"cloggie99" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:440d64c7$0$9259$(E-Mail Removed)...
> hi all
> now plusnet are stopping with the newsgroups well binary that is im
looking
> for a different isp, im looking at claranet are they still as good as
people
> use to say about them i know they are more expensive but the don't have a
> usage cap any info much appreciated
>
>

Owain wrote:
>
> cloggie99 wrote:
> > now plusnet are stopping with the newsgroups well binary that is im looking
> > for a different isp, im looking at claranet are they still as good aspeople
> > use to say about them i know they are more expensive but the don't have a
> > usage cap any info much appreciated
>
> You can get claranet's "mail and news" service without using them for
> broadband. Don't know about their binaries server but text server is
> IIRC £12 a year.
>
> Owain


In July, my renewal charge was 10UKP. There are details somewhere on
their site, but they don't exactly *flaunt* it.


Howard
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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:20:43 +0000, Howard <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Owain wrote:
>>
>> cloggie99 wrote:
>> > now plusnet are stopping with the newsgroups well binary that is im looking
>> > for a different isp, im looking at claranet are they still as good as people
>> > use to say about them i know they are more expensive but the don't have a
>> > usage cap any info much appreciated
>>
>> You can get claranet's "mail and news" service without using them for
>> broadband. Don't know about their binaries server but text server is
>> IIRC £12 a year.
>>
>> Owain
>
>
>In July, my renewal charge was 10UKP. There are details somewhere on
>their site, but they don't exactly *flaunt* it.
>

See http://www.uk.clara.net/homeaccess/mail_and_news.php

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cerberus

On 07 Mar 2006 13:10, Owain <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>You can get claranet's "mail and news" service without using them for
>broadband. Don't know about their binaries server but text server is
>IIRC £12 a year.

9.99 (and they've been working for the last year, or so it seemed from
various posts complaining about binaries on rethinking how they handle
the binaries... It's the same record Plus.Net are playing, I think.

They do seem to have a modest cost off-peak account (ie not office hours)
with a 12 month contract, which would allow downloading from them and any
other services one wanted.


Check <http://www.clara.net/btbroadband/> for the 9.99/year mail + news
(text only) account, or for 29.99/year you get mail + news (inc binaries,
10 GB/month allowed) + they register a domain for you and do hosting too.
The mail filtering is a reasonable tool, too, to drop/forward/redirect a
message, based on any of the headers in it... or simply 'deliver' it to
your Claranet POP mailbox if you find some suitable search expression,
and 'drop' anything which doesn't match your series of rules. Peter.
--

UK ADSL <http://tinyurl.com/dghgq> - Happy to save cash with Plus.Net!!

cerberus@use_reply_to_address.invalid wrote:
>
> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:20:43 +0000, Howard <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
> >Owain wrote:
> >>
> >> cloggie99 wrote:
> >> > now plusnet are stopping with the newsgroups well binary that is im looking
> >> > for a different isp, im looking at claranet are they still as goodas people
> >> > use to say about them i know they are more expensive but the don'thave a
> >> > usage cap any info much appreciated
> >>
> >> You can get claranet's "mail and news" service without using them for
> >> broadband. Don't know about their binaries server but text server is
> >> IIRC £12 a year.
> >>
> >> Owain
> >
> >
> >In July, my renewal charge was 10UKP. There are details somewhere on
> >their site, but they don't exactly *flaunt* it.
> >
> See http://www.uk.clara.net/homeaccess/mail_and_news.php


Coo! They've done a site revamp - much better. It's been ages since
I last looked.

Howard
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"cloggie99" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>now plusnet are stopping with the newsgroups well binary that is im looking
>for a different isp

Just a note to be aware that many ISP outsource the newsservice to
third parties, so you need to double check that the ISP does not use
Plusnet.

For instance, when I enquired (aiming to avoid Giganews as used by
Firefly), I discovered that NDO/Namesco use them.

Daytona

Daytona wrote:
> "cloggie99" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> now plusnet are stopping with the newsgroups well binary that is im
>> looking for a different isp
>
> Just a note to be aware that many ISP outsource the newsservice to
> third parties, so you need to double check that the ISP does not use
> Plusnet.
>
> For instance, when I enquired (aiming to avoid Giganews as used by
> Firefly), I discovered that NDO/Namesco use them.
>
> Daytona

Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with Giganews?
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Adrian A

On 07 Mar 2006 16:25, I wrote:

>Check <http://www.clara.net/btbroadband/> for the 9.99/year mail + news
>(text only) account, or for 29.99/year you get mail + news (inc binaries,
>10 GB/month allowed) + they register a domain for you and do hosting too.
>The mail filtering is a reasonable tool, too, to drop/forward/redirect a
>message, based on any of the headers in it...

I've gone back, and they've removed the 29.99 account. Clearly it was too
good a deal for customers, or Claranet is getting ready to stop taking any
more users of their binary news service (they've had complaints, have also
been giving compensation, and they seem to have been rethinking how to get
their service working in a completely different way to how they were doing
it in 2000. So either they'll end up with a good, reliable service, or...

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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:03:33 +0000, poster <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On 07 Mar 2006 16:25, I wrote:
>
>>Check <http://www.clara.net/btbroadband/> for the 9.99/year mail + news
>>(text only) account, or for 29.99/year you get mail + news (inc binaries,
>>10 GB/month allowed) + they register a domain for you and do hosting too.
>>The mail filtering is a reasonable tool, too, to drop/forward/redirect a
>>message, based on any of the headers in it...
>
>I've gone back, and they've removed the 29.99 account. Clearly it was too
>good a deal for customers, or Claranet is getting ready to stop taking any
>more users of their binary news service (they've had complaints, have also
>been giving compensation, and they seem to have been rethinking how to get
>their service working in a completely different way to how they were doing
>it in 2000. So either they'll end up with a good, reliable service, or...

What compensation? It was promised for nearly two years, I left about
2 months ago - if they gave it during the past 2 months or so, what
was it?