In message , OG
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"Janet" wrote in message
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Help, from all of us on Demon. Since september we have been unable to
get on to this newsgroup via Demon servers. They are continously
unavailable to us and 'apparently' in the porcess of being fixed. They
were ideally asccessed via Turtnike Demon's own software.

However someone has reported many ISPs are pulling their support of
groups, mainly becasue they take up too much bandwidth etc.

Question:
I can get a new email address/server etc but using Thunderbird what
usenet server should i use? Most will allow you to read but not
post.

What do others use ? (other than those bound up with OE or dreadful
things such as AOL


You can sign up for News.individual.net for 7 euros for a year. This
gives access to non-binary newsgroups


Yup, been using them for years on and off.

An alternative, is to sign up to one of Usenet services aimed primarily
at those who use binary groups. Sign up to one of the not time limited,
set amount of bandwidth for a fixed fee tariffs.

Eg, Astraweb web will do you 25GB for US$10 - for text groups only that
would last for many years.


http://www.news.astraweb.com/


I'm surprised Demon still has customers really, they long, long ago
ceased to be a decent ISP.
--
Chris French