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dogmeat@rocketmail.com - 26 Jun 2008 09:28 GMT

Now that Time Warner Cable has wussed out and stopped providing news
servers, I need recommendations for a good service. Anyone paying for
a "premium" service (one not lumped in with your ISP) and happy with
them?

TIA

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Mark (newsgroups) - 26 Jun 2008 12:31 GMT

On Jun 26, 9:28 am, dogm...@rocketmail.com wrote:

> Now that Time Warner Cable has wussed out and stopped providing news
> servers, I need recommendations for a good service. Anyone paying for
> a "premium" service (one not lumped in with your ISP) and happy with
> them?

You could try one of the free news servers before signing up for a
paid one. I am unfortunately posting this message from google groups,
but at home I use nntp.aoie.org. Seems reasonably reliable.

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jcrud - 26 Jun 2008 22:47 GMT

> Now that Time Warner Cable has wussed out and stopped providing news
> servers, I need recommendations for a good service. Anyone paying for
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>
> ...

Free one - news.motzarella.org

So far works nicely.

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Gundemarie Scholz - 26 Jun 2008 23:17 GMT

http://news.individual.net/overview.php

Very happy customer for approximately eight years, first it was free, but
they are doing a very good filtering job, so I don't mind paying for the
service.

Regards,
Gunde

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~misfit~ - 27 Jun 2008 07:51 GMT

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Gundemarie Scholz" typed:

>> Now that Time Warner Cable has wussed out and stopped providing news
>> servers, I need recommendations for a good service. Anyone paying for
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> but they are doing a very good filtering job, so I don't mind paying
> for the service.

Hi Gunde, good to 'see' you.

Good to know that NIN are still going strong. I used to use them when they
were free also but when they first went pay I didn't have the means to pay
(no credit card or Paypal at the time) so instead I changed ISP to one that
has an NNTP service bundled.

I've always thought that, if I ever need to use a seperate service, NIN will
be the providor I use.

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Carol Hague - 28 Jun 2008 15:14 GMT

> > Now that Time Warner Cable has wussed out and stopped providing news
> > servers, I need recommendations for a good service. Anyone paying for
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> they are doing a very good filtering job, so I don't mind paying for the
> service.

Seconded. And it's only a small charge too, 10 euro a year. Not sur what
that works out in dollars, but it's about £7 here in Merrie England.

That said though, the intermediary service that processes the payments
can be a touch idiosyncratic :-)

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Gundemarie Scholz - 03 Jul 2008 07:11 GMT

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> > http://news.individual.net/overview.php
> >
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> That said though, the intermediary service that processes the payments
> can be a touch idiosyncratic :-)

In what way? I usually get a reminder by mail that my subscription is about
to run out, and a second one that my bank transfer has arrived in their
account and that the subscription has been renewed.

Regards,
Gunde

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Carol Hague - 03 Jul 2008 09:41 GMT

> [...]
> > > http://news.individual.net/overview.php
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> to run out, and a second one that my bank transfer has arrived in their
> account and that the subscription has been renewed.

I had considerable difficulty updating my details when my card expired.
I think I had to input the card as a new one eventually because the page
simply wouldn't accept the revised details. I've heard from others who
had similar problems.

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