OT: News.Individual.net

Ben Panter wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Got an email this morning informing me that news.individual.net
> (UKRS's favourite free nntp) is going to be non-free after March 31st.
> Anybody know any other reliable free ones?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben

News.individual.de
Ciao
Ghigo

Ben Panter wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Got an email this morning informing me that news.individual.net
> (UKRS's favourite free nntp) is going to be non-free after March 31st.
> Anybody know any other reliable free ones?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben

Why is every group obsessed with jumping ship from nin when the new
charge is only 10 euro per YEAR?
Surely a reliable provider is worth that?

Take a Walk <spam@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Why is every group obsessed with jumping ship from nin when the new
> charge is only 10 euro per YEAR?
> Surely a reliable provider is worth that?

This is the problem of feeding a bad internet habit on an
academic salary. They view that as 10 euro per YEAR!

I can't talk. I'm posting via teranews from the office.
It's not quite free but Ben asked for reliable which it
ain't. At home it's BT which is built in to my ADSL bill.

nigelH

"Ben Panter" <me@privacy.net> skrev i en meddelelse
news:37gkp9F592no8U1@individual.net...
> Hi Guys,
>
> Got an email this morning informing me that news.individual.net
> (UKRS's favourite free nntp) is going to be non-free after March 31st.
> Anybody know any other reliable free ones?

You could try news.sunsite.dk, you have to register but it's free and
reliable. It's run on a danish university servers.

Send an e-mail to news-signup@sunsite.dk and you'll recieve login
information.

Cheers
Jonas

Matthias Voss <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote in news:cuvat2$kgf$02$1@news.t-
online.com:

> news.lirpa-labs.net

Tried that one, but got 'no data on server' as reply.

--
Michael Wolf
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Cthulhu for President! Why settle for the lesser evil?

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"Take a Walk" <spam@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:37gpm0F5do3qqU1@individual.net...
> Ben Panter wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Got an email this morning informing me that news.individual.net
>> (UKRS's favourite free nntp) is going to be non-free after March 31st.
>> Anybody know any other reliable free ones?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ben
>
> Why is every group obsessed with jumping ship from nin when the new charge
> is only 10 euro per YEAR?
> Surely a reliable provider is worth that?

Not just reliable, but good at filtering out the crap, too. They did a good
job of filtering the dippy floods last year.

Michael Wolf wrote:

> Matthias Voss <spammat.voss@gmx.de> wrote in news:cuvat2$kgf$02$1@news.t-
> online.com:
>
>
>>news.lirpa-labs.net
>
>
> Tried that one, but got 'no data on server' as reply.
>

That is understandable, at this time being

Matthias

Nigel Hewitt wrote:

> This is the problem of feeding a bad internet habit on an
> academic salary. They view that as 10 euro per YEAR!

Well quite... although to be fair 10 E isn't so bad.

> I can't talk. I'm posting via teranews from the office.
> It's not quite free but Ben asked for reliable which it
> ain't. At home it's BT which is built in to my ADSL bill.

The problem for me is flexibility. I have numerous different working
locations and it's nice to just be able to connect. PIPEX will only run
from my UK home address, T-online from my German one, nntp.edin from
Edinburgh and nntp.mpa-garching from work in Germany. Blah blah blah.

NIN worked from all of them and was quick and efficient. If the other
suggestions made don't work well I reckon I can splash out 10 E...

cheers to all for your suggestions

Ben