Free Beta USENET account

[frogster220]

I tried supernews but their download limit was way to low.

i'm using mindspring and they seem to provide decent usenet access. but, it seems like their retention has gotten bad lately.

 

[StealthX32]

isn't submitting incorrect CC info fraudulent?

 

[Sonic625]

For Thouse who dont know it, here is old news from Deja.com
Google Acquires Deja's Usenet Archive
~ Google Releases Beta Service in Transition ~
Its still free and very quick.
Thanks,
Sonic625

 

[Bob/NYC]

AvesPKS:

No, these are outside news servers. news.newzpig.com free, but worthless.

 

[amnesiac]

Apparently Newzpig is suck from what I hear..

I've signed up for Giganews and it ROCKS. The speed is incredible and propagation is even better.

 

[RayH]

Supernews was great when they had 10GB/month limits and a $79/year plan. The yearly plan is still not a bad way to supplement an existing isp news server even though the limit is now 2.5GB/month.

Creating two Supernews yearly accounts is not a bad alternative if 5GB/month is what you're after.

 

[Bob/NYC]

The idea is to sign up with the Pig, since they promise beta testers a monthly sub at $5.99+/- lifetime, if they ever get good and charge.

 

[Malchior]

Any opinions about Usenet.com? I've been test driving this service and comparing it to Newscene... hard to really get a good picture of retention and completeness between the two. I know one thing for sure...
Usenet has a larger server farm and way better speed if you're signing up for the unlimited download plans. Personally 2.5 gigs/month is way to little... heck, I just pulled a Gig yesterday from my ISP's servers.
I'm pretty much looking for opinions on unlimited download services (other than Newsfeeds).

 

[Carnivore99]

Here is a pretty good list of free (and pay) alternate usenet sites, courtesy of Google.

 

[engineerfalde]

Quick question I'm in IT and in the past have used dejanews extensively for research purposes (gawd someone looks for something other than porn on usenet) anyway dejnews just got bought out by google and the new format looks like crap anyone have any other good free places to search usenet??
Thanks

 

[whizbang]

engineerfalde, what you mean to say is "I read Playboy for the articles".

I recently switched my usenet service from Supernews to Easynews and have been totally satisfied. Service seems the same, is $4 less/month and I upped my limit from 2.5GB to 6GB...

 

[tchan]

Malchior,

Sorry, I don't have any answers for you but would like to get your take - the service on usenet.com looks good. Does the Platinum membership have anything extra that one would actually use over the Gold membership? I see that from the FAQ the Platinum allows 1 gig per server per day and that platinum has accesss to 18 servers - but isn't this very inconvienent having to jump between over a dozen servers? They also say that the Platinum servers have 30 days retention on their binary servers!!! Usenetserver has 8 days (and I was told they were top tier). Something seems odd...

I currently use usenetserver.com and paid $150 for 150 GB of downloads or 1 year (which ever comes first) but I can get a pro-rata refund of the unused amount if it's worth the switch.

 

[dayg]

just signed up without a problem...the only thing I changed was the CC date to 2004 but didnt enter any CC numbers.

 

[Perplexer]

Malchior:

Usenet.com is a Newsfeeds.com reseller. Check out newsfeeds.com and you'll see the server list is the same.

Going through a reseller is cheaper than signing up directly with Newsfeeds.com, I guess because Newsfeeds.com doesn't need to provide you any technical support. As far as Newsfeeds.com resellers go, some are cheaper than others, like MegaNet News

Their service is iffy... their servers are not linked, and you'll usually have to hunt through several of them to retrieve all parts of a posted binary message.

On the plus side, they do not appear to limit download speed, and there is a 1GB/day download limit.

That said, my main usenet access is through Telocity (really bad) and my backup is through Newsfeeds.com. Between the two, I can usually get anything that is posted.

 

[Perplexer]

Tchan:

http://www.usenetserver.com/ is also a Newsfeeds.com reseller. Same service.

About the 30-day retention: Yes, SOME of the servers may keep SOME messages around for 30 days. For example: "my.newsfeeds.com" only carries user-requested newsgroups. There may only be 150 newsgroups on that server, thus storage space is not as much of an issue, so messages stick around longer.

 

[bambam]

Ok I am probably asking for it but wouldn't it be better just to get an ISP which has usnet as part of the package ? BTW - anyone know when the google will get the old archives from dejanews up.

 

[Bob/NYC]

My ISP has Newsfeeds free, as part of the sub. I joined Easynews, because Newsfeeds is incomplete-"is suck". Missing posts and partial mp3 CDs, but complete at Easynews. 17 day retension on binaries.
What's usenet porn???

 

[h0stile]

Giganews has great completion, and good retention too. I have an account with them and easily exceed my 6gb a month between DC, PC, and Pron. Its good stuffs though. I had a usenetserver account, unlimited for a year. It was great, I cried when a year was over. Now I pay 15 a month for Giganews. Oh well.

 

[tchan]

Perplexer, you seem to really know your stuff so I have a bunch of questions:

1. How can you tell which companies are Newsfeeds.com resellers is there a list out there? If they are resellers why do they (usenetserver) always tell me that -=they=- are doing upgrades to their server, yada yada yada?

2. If you're hitting your telocity server and then your newsfeeds server how are you doing it (IE what program works well for multi servers?)

3. You say that MegaNet News is the same has news server as newsfeeds but then you say that their servers are iffy. How does that work if they're the same servers as the "good " servers.

Thanks!