Article: 51953 of ba.internet From: Jeff Liebermann Newsgroups: ba.internet Subject: Re: Looking for Bay area ISP with good usenet servers Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 23:43:51 -0700 Organization: Committee To Maintain an Independent Xenix Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <3816a4f5@news1.jps.net> <7v7f5d$2bu$1@samba.rahul.net> <7v8elk$rse$1@forte.heathen.com> Reply-To: jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Path: news1.meer.net!news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!remarQ-uK!rQdQ!supernews.com!remarQ.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: news1.meer.net ba.internet:51953 On 27 Oct 1999 20:07:32 -0700, paigen@forte.heathen.com (David Paigen) wrote: >Yeah, but for $6.25/month you are not going to find an ISP that has >good news service. News isn't like the old days, when all you had >to do was ask for a feed. Sigh. Oh, it's still possible to get free peering for a limited newsfeed. However, since a full feed is currently 70 GigaBloats/day and rising, nobody is going to supply a free full newsfeed. Public news resources for the great unwashed masses: http://www.jammed.com/~newzbot/ Where to get peering: http://www.usenet-se.net/peering/ How much data you're gonna have to shovel for a full feed: http://newsfeed-east.remarq.com/feed-size/ Newsfeed via satellite: http://www.isp-sat.com Where the news sysadmins hang out: news:news.software.nntp Where the usenet news complainers hang out: news:alt.binaries.news-server-comparison -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D Santa Cruz CA 95060 (831)421-6491 pgr (831)426-1240 fax (831)336-2558 home http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl WB6SSY jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us jeffl@cruzio.com Article: 51948 of ba.internet From: For_Email@ddress.see_be.low (Philip J. Koenig) Newsgroups: ba.internet Subject: Re: Looking for Bay area ISP with good usenet servers Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:44:15 -0700 Organization: The Ekahuna Organization Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <3816a4f5@news1.jps.net> <9iMXOCZvfHxOIHIvGA0wVlltl8qU@4ax.com> X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.10 Path: news1.meer.net!news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!remarQ-easT!rQdQ!supernews.com!remarQ.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: news1.meer.net ba.internet:51948 In article <9iMXOCZvfHxOIHIvGA0wVlltl8qU@4ax.com>, jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us (Jeff Liebermann) writes... > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:15:10 -0700, "Steven Scharf" wrote: > > >"Our news server is provided free as a bonus to our customers. For this > >reason we cannot provide any technical support for it's usage, beyond that > >of ensuring your settings are correct. " > > Good, fast, cheap. Pick two. > > Shopping for a Usenet News Provider > http://www.exit109.com/~jeremy/news/providers/ > > Comparison of Usenet News providers > http://members.tripod.com/~newscompare/chart.html Very handy resources. -- Philip J. Koenig The Electric Kahuna Organization [see below] -----------------Computers & Communications for the New Millenium------------- * This message is spam-resistant. To send email, use the following address * * by removing numbers and spaces: pjkunet64 @ ekahuna27 . c o m * * * * Expose ORBS for what it is: abuse of the net. * * Simple answers are for simple minds. Try a new way of looking at things. *