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de8212

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I haven't used usenet in ~7 years or so. I've actually been thinking of getting a service again. last I used was giganews.

I ran across some people suggesting to go with a "block" account from http://www.blocknews.net/ . Anyone tried them? Seems like a decent deal to me because I won't ever utilize any of the unlimited services. I can't see myself downloading a ton.
 
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Suspicious-Teach8788

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http://www.newsgroupservers.net/

Read more here.

But basically Newsgroups are mainly broken down to:

1) GigaNews
2) Highwinds
3) News-service
4) Astraweb

Now you see a lot of other providers out there like usenet.net, supernews, easynews, newshosting... essentially they're RESELLERS.

If you categorize it further it looks like this:

1) GigaNews: Supernews, Usenet.net
2) Highwinds: Easynews, Newshosting
3) News-service: I dont use this and can't name any resellers off the top of my head
4) Astraweb

You need to figure out what's best. I've used Giganews resellers like Supernews and Usenet.net and I've also tried Easynews which uses Highwinds.

GigaNews is the best freaking back end BY FAR. They have the BESt retention out of all of them. What I mean is some shit gets lost and you get incomplete stuff frequently. This happened to me on highwinds a lot, but on Giganews? NEVER HAPPENED. Now the trick is to find something cheap and affordable. I used Usenet.net back in the day. The REAL GigaNews is a lot more $$$ but is the gold standard of the industry.

I searhced around and found Supernews. It's like $11.99 or something for 30 connections and you get SSL. Unlimited too. The downside is 800 day retention versus 1000+ for GigaNews. Big deal. 800 days = 2+ years. I can deal with that. When I started on Usenet.net in 2006 it was like 200 day retention. And even now it's up to 800+ days.

BTW regarding all the discussions about Usenet. It's obviously piracy heaven. Don't lie and say that you're using it for legal means. It's like why else would you buy a radar detector? You love driving the speed limit and knowing that cops are around just so you can wave and say "Hi Officer?" You love watching those movies get released for your newsgroup and then you go to Netflix and start streaming instead? Yeah. I'm not judging anyone, but let's be honest and all admit Newsgroups = PIRACY.
 
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gigahertz20

gigahertz20

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de8212 said:
I haven't used usenet in ~7 years or so. I've actually been thinking of getting a service again. last I used was giganews.

I ran across some people suggesting to go with a "block" account from http://www.blocknews.net/ . Anyone tried them? Seems like a decent deal to me because I won't ever utilize any of the unlimited services. I can't see myself downloading a ton.
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Yeah, block accounts are great if you don't plan on downloading several hundred GB's a month and not many people do.

I found this deal on slickdeals and it is the best block account deal I found, this provider called newsgroupdirect sells 1TB chunks for $50, but only on a few Tuesdays out of the year (See details in link). Newsgroupdirect uses the highwinds infracture (link below) the same infracture that newsdemon and usenetserver use. I guess newsgroupdirect just did their first Tuesday 1TB for $50 promotion a few days ago....damn I wish I would have found this earlier.

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2915691

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/newsgroup_server_resellers (All the resellers)


Also another sick deal I found was this guy says that he and his friend have been sharing an account on usenetserver (Highwinds), apparently they don't mind 2 IP's connected at the same time. It's $10 and he splits with a friend so $5 each per month. Read his post:

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=866925&t=2226705




@DLeRium

Thanks for the info.
 
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BladeVenom

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gigahertz20 said:
Before binary newsgroups came about people mostly used it to talk with one another, there were no forums like this back in the day. But now, it's mostly used for the binary newsgroups.
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It wasn't that long ago that Microsoft was still using newsgroups for support.

There are still some active discussion and fan groups.

Dejanews was great for looking up old topics, then Google bought them and merged it with Google groups into some horrible abomination.

Does anyone use Google Groups? It seemed like the worst thing I'd ever seen.
 
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Astraweb is the best one within a budget I find. I have only had 1 incomplete file in 12 months. I always max out my speed, and it offers SSL encryption too.
 
gigahertz20

gigahertz20

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tokie said:
Astraweb is the best one within a budget I find. I have only had 1 incomplete file in 12 months. I always max out my speed, and it offers SSL encryption too.
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What newsreader do you use? Most people seem to really like Sabnzbd.
I read every single post in a 18 page thread on usenet in the Slickdeals forum and found some really good information on what people use. Most people use sabnzbd+sickbeard+couch potato and ditch cable/satellite TV all together.

I wonder how many people use the internet to replace both their phone land line and their TV viewing, you can use a cheap VOIP service to replace your land line and you can acquire all your TV Shows/Movies through the internet as well. Just get a fast internet plan and you are good to go, talk about saving alot of money.


de8212 said:
I haven't used usenet in ~7 years or so. I've actually been thinking of getting a service again. last I used was giganews.

I ran across some people suggesting to go with a "block" account from http://www.blocknews.net/ . Anyone tried them? Seems like a decent deal to me because I won't ever utilize any of the unlimited services. I can't see myself downloading a ton.
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I wouldn't go with blocknews, they are not part of the big 3 (Giganews/Highwinds/Astraweb) but who knows maybe the service is still good.

http://www.newsgroupservers.net/newsgroup_server_resellers
 
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