Thanks, Paul. Much better than through long Googling (which I had done).
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RobF
"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
news:i0d634$12u$1@speranza.aioe.org...
| RobF wrote:
| > Cox high speed is switching to Gigagnews, with a range of fees. Are
there
| > still free providers?
|
| (free, text only, no binaries, no registration required, ready to use
immediately,
| limited to 25 text posts per day which is plenty.)
|
|
http://www.aioe.org/
|
| (free, text only, no binaries, registration required)
|
|
http://www.eternal-september.org/index.php?showpage=techinfo
|
| You can connect to E-S without authentication, but only a small
| list of newsgroups will appear if you do that. If your news
| client has a tick box to request or force authentication,
| then your news reader will be able to pass a username and
| password. Once you've registered with E-S server, and
| received your new account, you can enter that username and
| password, and then the newsgroup list should include
| thousands of groups. If for any reason, authentication
| is failing, then the newsgroup list will contain just a handful
| of items.
|
| The free servers also enforce other restrictions, but that
| is all part of the fun of using them. There are more of
| these free servers, each with their own arcane features.
|
| Paul