Re: News readers (was: Wreckers)

Adrian Stott wrote:
> Staffy@Stourport
> <staffy-u9xOE1vK+bbzxHlZnGcD9L0Ud+EcFu5g@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> I lost the will to keep up with uk-rec-ww when myself and the German
>> newsreader I used were changing all kinds of set ups. Then someone
>> from this parish helped me to find it, from the darkside, reading on
>> the web. So now I mainly lurk there but it's well worth dropping in
>> now and again. Can't recall how I found it but the web page emerges
>> from the following link
>>
>> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.rec.waterways
>
> I have been on URW for years, viewing it as a news group (as I do this
> Canals group too) which I find is much the most convenient way to
> participate in such forums.
>
> However, I've just moved from dial-up to broadband, and TalkTalk
> hasn't yet managed to get me and its news server talking.
>
> So I too have been using Google Groups of late.  But I find it very
> cumbersome compared to news reader software (I use Free Agent).
>
> So, in case TalkTalk never gets me in touch with its news server, can
> anyone recommend another, not-USP-specific, news server I might use to
> access URW?
>


I use these (as well as my free allowance on Pipex)

1. http://www.teranews.com/ 3.95GBP on off fee, 50Mb per day allowance
2. http://www.news.astraweb.com/  Best deal at present is the special 25USD 
for 90GB (no expiry time)

Note teranews can sometimes be a bit techy (it is free!).  My average speed 
is 24Kbytes/s (two connections max).  Astraweb is unlimited connections and 
maxes out my connection at 96Kbytes/s (that a 1Mbits/s broadband flat out), 
they don't include uploads or the downloaded headers as part of the sum.



Ron Jones
Process Safety & Development Specialist
Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near missesa at
http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and
human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert
Einstein 




 
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