Re: Advice, please: ISP that supports Gnus

Joe Fineman <joe_f <at> verizon.net> writes:

> At present my ISP is Verizon, which does not officially support Gnus,
> but has never given me any trouble using it.  However, as you have
> perhaps heard, on 24 June Verizon is dropping all newsgroup
> hierarchies other than the so-called Big 8, so that I will no longer
> be able to browse this newsgroup or, in fact, most of the ones that I
> now look at.

Use a public Uesnet server that allow posting. I personally use
news.gmane.org.

Charles

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Re: Advice, please: ISP that supports Gnus

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:21:13 GMT, Joe Fineman <joe_f <at> verizon.net> wrote:
> At present my ISP is Verizon, which does not officially support Gnus,
> but has never given me any trouble using it.  However, as you have
> perhaps heard, on 24 June Verizon is dropping all newsgroup
> hierarchies other than the so-called Big 8, so that I will no longer
> be able to browse this newsgroup or, in fact, most of the ones that I
> now look at.
>
> This seems like a good time to ask what ISPs normal Gnus types use.

I've been a very happy user of `news.sunsite.dk' for a few years now.
The service _does_ require a registration and an `~/.authinfo' file with
the username you chose and the password provided by the web interface of
the service, but other than that it is a freely available and it has
been marvelously stable for me, ever since I registered.

Registration information, and helpful instructions for configuring Gnus
to use the service can be found at:

    http://www.dotsrc.org/usenet/

If your ISP doesn't do obnoxious things like blocking NNTP connections
to outside addresses, it should be a piece of cake to register and start
using `news.sunsite.dk'.

Cheers,
Giorgos

Re: Advice, please: ISP that supports Gnus

Joe Fineman <joe_f <at> verizon.net> writes:

> At present my ISP is Verizon, which does not officially support
> Gnus, but has never given me any trouble using it.  However, as you
> have perhaps heard, on 24 June Verizon is dropping all newsgroup
> hierarchies other than the so-called Big 8, so that I will no longer
> be able to browse this newsgroup or, in fact, most of the ones that
> I now look at.
>
> This seems like a good time to ask what ISPs normal Gnus types use.
Verizon's treatment of its Usenet users is discouraging but I am using
Earthlink news servers which is contracted out to a "real" provider. I
doubt there are many ISPs which "officially" support Gnus; most just
support MS Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail.

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Allan