Linards Ticmanis

On 02/07/2012 05:53 PM, D Finnigan wrote:

> .. And it looks like Google Groups has indeed injected all of the articles
> since 02 Feb.

Confirmed, they've arrived on news.arcor.de too.

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Linards Ticmanis

Rockin' Kat

On 2/6/12 9:59 AM, Egan Ford wrote:
> On 2012-02-06 10:31:50 -0700, Linards Ticmanis said:
>
>> On 02/06/2012 05:51 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
>>> Usually when Google Usenet Groups has a problem it's that posts from
>>> outside of Google's Usenet service take a long time to appear. Now I
>>> am seeing the opposite. The news server that I use from my ISP is
>>> getting posts from everywhere but Google.
>>>
>>> Anyone else seeing this?
>>
>> Yes indeed. It's all missing from news.arcor.de. So I guess Google is
>> the culprit, as usual.
>>
>> Dear Google Groups users: that means currently us who don't usually go
>> there (except for search purposes) can't read anything you're posting.
>> Please consider posting from somewhere else.
>>
>> Although I guess I'm behind the times in still thinking of Google as
>> nothing more than a slightly glorified search engine...
>
> I know that this has been discussed before, perhaps its time to discuss
> again.
>
> What are the alternatives? What are others using? If using an NNTP
> server, what client on what OS? If web-based, URL. Thanks.

I've been using Giganews. Back when Comcast still provided Usenet access
at no extra charge, they had it contracted out to Giganews so I've been
using them. I just have the cheapest option at $4.99 a month.
www.giganews.com

I just use it with the built-in news reader in Thunderbird as it's
relatively convenient.

I don't care much for reading usenet groups in GoogleGroups because they
often seem to miss a lot of posts.

-RK