Usenet News Servers

[John Robertson]

On 03/06/2016 6:49 AM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
> I think Thunderbird will allow import from the old Netscape mail client.
>
> Dave

I access Giganews via Thunderbird (OSX) - works very well...

The downside is it costs about $8/month, but that is a very small 
business expense. Upside is Giganews goes back quite a ways...2003 for 
rec.humour.funny for example.

John :-#)#
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jerome H.
>> Fine
>> Sent: 06 March 2016 14:27
>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>> Subject: Re: Usenet News Servers
>>
>>   >On Saturday, March 5th, 2016 at 12:53:22 +0000, Robert Jarratt wrote:
>>
>>> My ISP appears to have stopped updating the newsgroups it hosts.
>>>
>>> What news servers do people round here recommend?
>>>
>> I have a question about access to newsgroups.  Which currently available
>> browser is able to access a newsgroups server?  Currently, I am using
>> Netscape 7.2 under Windows 98SE.  If I upgrade to Windows 10, I probably
>> won't find anything from Microsoft which will support reasonable access to
>> newsgroups.  Is there a link to a site which has an application that
> supports
>> access to newsgroups in a manner similar to how Netscape 7.2 provides
>> access.  BEST would be a browser that also supports access to e-mail in
> the
>> same manner as Netscape 7.2 and which also allows me to copy all of the
>> archived 100,000 e-mails and posts which I have acquired over the last 15
>> years.  It is only about 300 MB, so the size is not a factor.
>>
>> I know someone will probably recall the same question a while ago, but the
>> answer given then was not sufficient to make the switch.  At least a link
> to
>> the site which has the files to be downloaded would be needed since just
>> the name of the application does not seem to help me.
>>
>>
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>> When I registered 8 years ago, I received the following reply copied
> below.
>> There is no charge for the service.  I have found that about 99% of the
> posts
>> which appear at eternal-september also appear at sunsite.  Mainly, I use
>> sunsite to check that I am receiving all the posts which have been made to
>> other servers in addition to having a second source just in case one of
> the
>> servers has crashed or disappears.
>>
>> The e-mail to sign up was sent to:
>> news-signup at sunsite.dk
>>
>> The other e-mail address that I used to inquire about an acceptable
>> newsgroup which was not yet carried (alt.sys.pdp11 -  but is now) was:
>> staff at sunsite.dk
>>
>> The information should be sufficient to inquire and register.
>>
>> Note that retention is short for some newsgroups, probably only a few days
>> while for others the retention can be over a year.  So checking the posts
> on
>> at least a daily basis is recommended until you determine the retention
>> period.
>>
>>
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>> Dear "e-mail address"
>>
>> You have been registered at the dotsrc.org usenet server.
>>
>> To be able to read and post articles, you will have to tell your news
> client,
>> that it must perform authentication.
>>
>> If you forget your username/password, then just register again.
>>
>> There is no need to remove your registration - your registration will be
>> removed when it has not been used for 3 months.
>>
>> More information can be found at:
>>
>>    http://dotsrc.org/usenet/
>>
>> Your username is: "e-mail address"
>> Your password is: "six character password"
>> Your newsserver is: news.sunsite.dk
>>
>> IMPORTANT: October 15th 2005 a new access policy was introduced, in order
>> to make the main focus of the usenet service consistent with our remaining
>> policy and focus. For further info please see
>> http://dotsrc.org/usenet/accesschange/
>>
>> Please remark, that the username and password is for your personal usage
>> only!
>>
>> Upon any abuse, your account will be terminated immediately.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Dotsrc.org News Administrator
>> staff at dotsrc.org
>>
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