NP-f31 wrote in news:9mf4s4dof5c58bnu8npvsk21girt6n0g4s@4ax.com:
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> Doc
> NP-f31
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> PS-I'm trying to help folks too. We're on the same team.
>
>
> Here is some basic information on Usenet News Service Providers
>
> The most recommended newsgroups service providers are listed
> below with a brief description. There are others. They have
> various price ranges.
>
> www.teranews.com
>
> For a one time service fee of US$3.95, you can download up to
> 50MB/day, and do unlimited uploads, if they are done before the
> daily download limit is reached. Posting to some newsgroups is
> restricted. They have a less than average completion rate (are
> the posts all present and accounted for?), and poor propagation
> (do the posts make it to all of Usenet?), and don't list the
> contents of some newsgroups of interest.
>
> www.newscene.com
>
> Middle price range. Superior completion but retention (how long
> posts are available on the servers) averages two to three weeks.
> Good security.
>
> www.easynews.com
>
> Good prices. Very good completion. Retention improving, depending
> on price schedule. Has censorship issues, doesn't carry some
> groups of interest (you will not find The Fort on Easynews). Due
> to recent changes, security behavior is unknown.
>
> www.news.astraweb.com
>
> For just one fee of US$10, you can download up to 25GB with no
> time restriction, and do unlimited uploads. Good completion and
> retention, and has all the newsgroups. They have positioned this
> option specifically as a backup server, and for those with dial-up
> connections. It's also very easy, unlike most other providers, to
> successfully, and anonymously, request them to include a new
> newsgroup. This is the only provider that I've ever been successful
> in getting a new group to show up in. They restrict the posting of
> large file sizes. I do NOT recommend posting anything illegal
> through them. They will act on the lightest of complaints and
> contact LEA.
>
> www.Usenetmonster.com
>
> VERY good price for their basic account. Good retention and
> completion.
>
> www.bubbanews.com
>
> Free 50MB download a day, but requires credit card to sign up.
> NOT for private things. They do not seem to have anything on
> their web site to indicate anything about privacy or security
> and they don't list the contents of some newsgroups of interest.
>
> News Service Providers to be avoided
>
> These have any combination of:
> (1) poor security
> (2) poor propagation
> (3) poor completion
> (4) posting restrictions
> (5) missing newsgroups
> (6) zealous cooperation with the Law
> (7) bad payment options
>
> Athenanews 1, 2
> Uncensored-news 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
> Giganews 1, 4, 6
> Newsfeeds 1, 2, 3, 5
> Usenetmonster 5 (many) But extremely inexpensive.
> Newshosting 2, 3, 4, 7 (for posting)
>
> How the posting process works:
>
> Some service providers lease server space from other, bigger,
> service providers, and in different ways, but most of them
> have their own servers with which they receive the posts made
> by their subscribers. So, when you post a message, your post
> first goes to the receiving server, where proprietary information
> is added to the post?s header, such as the provider?s name and
> the propagation path entry. It then gets routed to other servers
> (local), and to other providers (propagated), using a complicated
> time schedule. It can happen that a post can be on a different
> provider's server, before it is seen on the server of the company
> it is posted to, because of different update schedules. Your post
> is, in turn, propagated to other providers, and so on, until it
> reaches the server where others see it. Each server it passes
> through, will add more information to your post's path entry.
> Different providers use different software to do this, and they
> are not all compatible. There can be all kinds of problems in
> this process, and there are many opportunities for file corruption.
>
Hey Doc,
Excellent post.
Have not seen one so well done since Y-Not posted one.
Have saved this for future reference.
Thanks
--avoice
"lightin' the flame here and there"
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