I have news service through my ISP, Verizon.net. They have
decided that no one uses the news services, so they are stopping
services at the end of September.
Can anyone tell me where/how to continue this newsfeed without
the illustrious help of Verizon?
> I have news service through my ISP, Verizon.net. They have
> decided that no one uses the news services, so they are stopping
> services at the end of September.
Yup, first I lost ATT news (BellSouth) and now in three weeks I too will
lose Verizon. IMO the biggest loss will be the ISP's own support groups
0.verizon.* because the rest of them are generic and available from
multiple news services. If you use those groups then I recommend new group
alt.online-service.verizon which was set up for us refugees from Verizon
news and that is now well propagated and active.
> Can anyone tell me where/how to continue this newsfeed without
> the illustrious help of Verizon?
Free news services that carry this newsgroup (and also the
alt.online-service.verizon group) include:
If are willing to pay for a news service, then news.individual.net offers
an excellent text-only (no binary groups) service for around $15 per year.
Also news.astraweb.com offers a Pay-by-Download service. I pre-paid $10
for 25GB download several months ago and as I only read text groups and
just use it as a backup I still have 24,991,555,942 bytes to go, so I'll
probably have loads left over to leave to my kids and grand kids and ...
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:33:20 +0100, "Anthony R. Gold"
<not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Also news.astraweb.com offers a Pay-by-Download service. I pre-paid $10
>for 25GB download several months ago and as I only read text groups and
>just use it as a backup I still have 24,991,555,942 bytes to go, so I'll
>probably have loads left over to leave to my kids and grand kids and ...
>
I'd second that, been with them for a few months now, need a proper
news reader tho as they won't filter out google spam.
My service going away 
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