Re: Bummer...RR to discontinue newgroup service

Joann Zimmerman <jzimm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <6bqnjvF3bldtpU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
>> Omelet wrote:
>>> Why don't they just set up filters?  It's not difficult.  I sub to two

>> 
>> Because that would require work on their part. Time Warner does not
like 
>> to work for their customers. :-/
>> 
>>> Keyword filters work and if they did it right, it'd not filter many of

>>> the legit posts.
>> 
>> I use news.individual.net, it's not free (something ridiculous like 10 
>> bucks a year), but it's 99.99% free of bogus posts as well as spam.
> 
> Ten euros. I've been using them for years; no real complaints. (I do see

> some spam headers I'd rather not, but it's usually quite easy to avoid.)
> Note that they don't do any binary groups.

At work I use the free servers news.motzarella.org, aioe.org, and
usenet4all.se. They average about 97% uptime and 99% completion for
the text groups.

I use SBC/AT&T at home, of course.

-sw