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newsserver

a computer on the Internet that caches traffic from some subset of the possible newsgroup postings and allows you to access them a message at a time. Normally you use the news sever provided by your ISP/IAP.

Newsserver Name

The newsserver is often just called news, or it might have a name like news. telus.net Phone your ISP/IAP and ask or read their website to get the exact name. If the mail server is called mail.xxxx.com chances are the newsserver will be called news. xxxx.com.

Free Newsservers

If your local ISP/IAP does not handle the newsgroups you are interested in, have a look at this German search engine that will find you a public server that will carry a given newsgroup. Just enter the newsgroup name in the top box and click Suche. Using a free server can be a problem. Eventually people overload them and they have to shut down. Lists of them are thus always out of date.

Microsoft hosts a free newsserver called msnews.microsoft.com that handles the microsoft.public.access.* newsgroups.

Forté Agent

The Forté Agent newsreader lets you have multiple newsservers. You do this because it is rare to find a single server than handles everything you want to monitor. The Agent people also provide newsserver access for only $3.00 USD a month. They call it APN (Agent Premium Newsgroups Subscription). The catch is, they only accept credit card monthly payments. You can’t pay a year in advance by PayPal or cheque.

Google Groups

Though Google Groups distributes material from the newsgroups and allows posting, it is not a true newsserver. It uses HTTP browser protocol. A true newsserver uses a protocol called NNTP specialised for reading newsgroups. It is somewhat faster than web browsing. Newsservers don’t talk to browsers. They talk to newsreaders. Using Google is confusing since message you post take perhaps 10 minutes to show up. Newbies panic and repost the same message over and over. Using Google Groups gives you low status, much like using an AOL mail account.

Binverse

Binverse is a low cost for-pay newsserver than lets you try them out for two weeks free. They take credit cards or PayPal.

Altopia: low cost pay newsserver
AnchorDudes Newsserver FAQ
GigaNews: pay newsserver
Google’s list of public newsservers
IAP
ISP
NewScene: pay newsserver
NewsDemon: pay newsserver
NewsHosting: pay newsserver
newsreader
Newsrover: a list of pay newsservers
Newzbot: a list of free newsservers
NNTP
PowerUseNet: pay newsserver
Slurp: pay newssever
SuperNews: pay newsserver
UNS: pay newsserver
Usenet-Access: low-cost pay newsserver
UseNetWorld: low cost pay newsserver

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