On Sep 16, 7:18 pm, Elizabeth D Rather forth.com> wrote:

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I never had trouble using news.rcn.com as a news server from anywhere.

I'll move my web site soon. Now that they RCN doesn't offer news
(binaries too) I have no reason to pay their highish price. A cheap
site host plus a cheap ISP will cost a bit less. Only spammers and
IEEE know my real email address anyway, so a move won't impact my
correspondence.

Jerry

On Sep 17, 12:59 pm, Randy Yates ieee.org> wrote:

Apparently, it's just a matter of time. I wish I hadn't had to find
out the hard way.

"Jerry Avins" ieee.org> wrote in message
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On Sep 16, 1:20 pm, Randy Yates ieee.org> wrote:

I paid a $3.95 sign-up fee and no monthly at all. The server is
free.teranews.com and that allows me 50 MB/day (headers don't count)
download and unlimited upload. Now if I could only post! (I'm working
on it.)

Jerry
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Sounds like my account ar Tera News. It took me a day or two to
be able to start uploading posta there, but then it took a few more days
for them to start doing anything with the posts I uploaded.

Jerry Avins wrote:

Comcast has joined the exodus, their Usenet server will cease to operate
after 10/25 I believe.

Martin Jensen wrote:
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| My apologies to all! I just checked my server's DNS and found that
| it is <news.comcast.net>, which is my ISP on cable. I was flat
| wrong, thanks to rising dementia (it has reached my chin and is
| headed for my eye-teeth).
|
| I was using Google Groups and I had exactly the experience you are
| having

Thanks for the heads-up Joan. It'll be back to Google until I can decide on a
replacement for Comcast.

If you are willing to spend the money, I don't think you can beat Giganews,
I pay $7.95 a month and have been using it for years even though AT&T
(formerly SBC) provides a server. Giganews has such superior completion and
retention that it's worth the money to me. I frequent a few binaries
groups--some photos and fractals--and got so frustrated with AT&T's poor
performance. Now AT&T has dropped binaries but I only look at a couple of
AT&T specific groups on their server now.

Martin Jensen wrote:
| Thanks for the heads-up Joan. It'll be back to Google until I can
| decide on a replacement for Comcast.
|

I've seen this one recommended if you want a free text-only
newsgroups provider:

http://www.motzarella.org/

If you'd rather have a cheap newsgroups provider that offers
some access to the binary newsgroups, try this one but expect
them to take a few days before starting to allow you to post
anything:

http://www.teranews.com/

"Martin Jensen" comcast.net> wrote in message
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Jerry Avins wrote:

check you have your smtp (outgoing server) correct, same as your email's
smtp is what you need.

I think you are wrong. Newsgroup posts never go through the email route.

Jimmy Alpha wrote:
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| check you have your smtp (outgoing server) correct, same as your
| email's smtp is what you need.