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jay - 16 Feb 2005 09:38 GMT

If anyone here is using http://news.individual.net/
It will not be free anymore

http://news.individual.net/
Important notice:

Effective from April 1th, 2005, use of News.Individual.NET will not be
free of charge anymore. The news service will continue as a fee-based
service. The fee for an account for News.Individual.NET is 10 EUR per year
(annual payment), that converts to only 0.84 EUR per month.

Effective immediately, registration for our news service is only possible
through our web site (Registration). Registration by e-mail (as hitherto)
is no longer possible.

Holders of existing accounts who want to continue using their account need
to convert it into a pay account. This is also only possible through our
web site (Registration). You will also find all details on payment
options, terms of use, and terms of contract on the web site.

For more information (especially on transitional periods and background),
please also check our public announcement.

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Larry Walker - 18 Feb 2005 23:41 GMT

>If anyone here is using http://news.individual.net/
>It will not be free anymore
[quoted text clipped - 18 lines]
>For more information (especially on transitional periods and background),
>please also check our public announcement.

I received an E-Mail informing me of this also.

I have no idea how much 10 EUR, would like to know.

Also would like to have any suggestions on what others use and how
much the cost is.

Thanks for any information.

>>>---LDW---->

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jay - 19 Feb 2005 01:47 GMT

> >If anyone here is using http://news.individual.net/
> >It will not be free anymore
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> I have no idea how much 10 EUR, would like to know.

Apparently it's $13.00 US/year.

There's other free news servers. I (think I) saw 2 mentioned on the fibro
newsgroup, but now I cannot find them.
So I don't know

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herbwormwood - 19 Feb 2005 17:46 GMT

I use that news server. At the moment I only read this newsgroup so I am not
keen on paying a fee, even a small fee as 10 euros, so I would like to know
of any decent free news servers. What so other people use? My ISP does not
provide newsserver.

>>> If anyone here is using http://news.individual.net/
>>> It will not be free anymore
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> newsgroup, but now I cannot find them.
> So I don't know

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jay - 20 Feb 2005 07:17 GMT

> I use that news server. At the moment I only read this newsgroup so I am not
> keen on paying a fee, even a small fee as 10 euros, so I would like to know
> of any decent free news servers. What so other people use? My ISP does not
> provide newsserver.

I did search every newsgroup and cannot find any suggestions this past week, so
I must have dreamt it or wasn't using the right keywords
Unless Bev, could ask on another newsgroup, the only way I know is to type
free news server into Google (search engine). I read the first 3 that came up
and it seems that:
not all news servers are equal and propagate messages as well as the German free
one
and not all of them carry all newsgroups. One had a "search newsgroup" to make
sure or say which search engine carries a specific newsgroup. One newsgroup
discussion said "you have to subscribe and try one and if you don't like it,
unsubscribe and subscribe to another"..sounds like work and chaos to me.
Can you not swing $13 US per year? I did see on one newsgroup where apparently
it can be added to a person's UK phone bill (monthly I think it said), but you
would have to check news.individual.net to make sure of the details

oh and you could probably use Google
http://groups-beta.google.com/advanced_search
I don't like it but maybe you could adjust to it. You could subscribe and try it
now before you make a decision about the German one. So type in
alt.support.lupus sort by date, top right corner "sign in", then next screen is
"Sign in" or "sign up now"

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herbwormwood - 20 Feb 2005 10:21 GMT

>> I use that news server. At the moment I only read this newsgroup so I am not
>> keen on paying a fee, even a small fee as 10 euros, so I would like to know
[quoted text clipped - 22 lines]
> http://groups-beta.google.com/advanced_search
> I don't like it but maybe you could adjust to it. You could subscribe and try

> it
> now before you make a decision about the German one. So type in
> alt.support.lupus sort by date, top right corner "sign in", then next screen
> is
> "Sign in" or "sign up now"

Hi,
Yes, I know news servers vary widely.
I also did a search on free news servers and came up with lot that weren't
free and some which didn't appear to work when I tried them.
I have got Hogwasher for newsgroups and Safari plus Explorer for web.
I did try and sign up for a free google account but after about seven
attempts it wouldn't let me register. I want live newsgroups not an archive
as the archives are missing some threads if people don't allow archiving on
their messages (like myself!)
At least I have a few weeks before my free account runs out. I am curious
though what others are using. Do you pay a separate fee, or does your ISP
include a news server?

Unregistered I would only be abl to read, not post.

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Andy - 20 Feb 2005 11:14 GMT

[]

>I did try and sign up for a free google account but after about seven
>attempts it wouldn't let me register.

It may require a "real" address - ie one it could send emails to; I
think you once said you use the public library? Or maybe it demands that
you accept cookies and your browser is set not to?

> I want live newsgroups not an archive
>as the archives are missing some threads if people don't allow archiving on
>their messages (like myself!)
>At least I have a few weeks before my free account runs out. I am curious
>though what others are using. Do you pay a separate fee, or does your ISP
>include a news server?

Mine includes news (albeit "unsupported", ie it nearly always works) but
is decidedly fee-charging.

Signature

Andy Taylor [Chair, N E Lupus Group]
See http://www.northeastlupus.org.uk for more!

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veganelf - 21 Feb 2005 08:54 GMT

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> []
>> I did try and sign up for a free google account but after about seven
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> think you once said you use the public library? Or maybe it demands that
> you accept cookies and your browser is set not to?

My email address is real! I do check it from the library because it works
better on their computers and I would rather download spam there than at
home! Lycos has a graphics heavy interface and a very poor spam filter, in my
opinion. I have another address of course.
And yes I thought about cookies. I tried Safari and Internet Explorer.
Neither worked.

>> I want live newsgroups not an archive
>> as the archives are missing some threads if people don't allow archiving on
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Mine includes news (albeit "unsupported", ie it nearly always works) but
> is decidedly fee-charging.

You used to be with the s*tanic one didn't you? :-)

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Timothy Luders - 21 Feb 2005 02:17 GMT

>> I use that news server. At the moment I only read this newsgroup so I am not
>> keen on paying a fee, even a small fee as 10 euros, so I would like to know
[quoted text clipped - 22 lines]
> alt.support.lupus sort by date, top right corner "sign in", then next screen is
> "Sign in" or "sign up now"

You can check out what others say at
<news://alt.free.newsservers>

Timothy

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herbwormwood - 21 Feb 2005 11:13 GMT

> You can check out what others say at
> <news://alt.free.newsservers>
>
> Timothy

I did, and I found this one:
www.x-privat.org

Its Italian and it seems to want you to be living in Italy, its in Italian,
but I can understand enough Italian to work out what to do. I registered and
got an account straight away. It has a web interface - very slow- and a non
web inter
face which seems lightning fast even on a modem. So far I like it (day one)
so hopefully I will stay in touch with the group.

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Sherry - 20 Feb 2005 20:59 GMT

check out this list. Maybe something there that will work for you.
http://www.newsservers.net/free_news_servers/index.php

Hugs,
sherry

>I use that news server. At the moment I only read this newsgroup so I am
>not
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
>> newsgroup, but now I cannot find them.
>> So I don't know

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