Re: OT: Newsgroup servers

On 1/9/2021 1:39 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
> On 1/9/21 10:05 AM, Frank wrote:
>> On 1/9/2021 3:33 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
>>> On 1/9/21 12:57 AM, Jeff Layman wrote:
>>>> On 09/01/2021 06:15, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>>> On 01/08/2021 08:41 PM, Daniel wrote:
>>>>>> David E. Ross wrote on 09/01/21 14:15:
>>>>>>> On 1/8/2021 3:25 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
>>>>>>>> Looking for recommendations and/or suggestions for a newsgroup
>>>>>>>> server,
>>>>>>>> free or paid.  The free one I I've been using has gone away.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My primary NNTP service is the free AIOE.  The Web site is
>>>>>>> <https://news.aioe.org/>.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My backup is the free Eternal September.  Its Web site is
>>>>>>> <http://www.eternal-september.org/>.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you want a service that retains old messages for a long time 
>>>>>>> or has
>>>>>>> obscure newsgroups, consider Giganews.  Its Web site is
>>>>>>> <https://www.giganews.com/>.  Subscriptions currently cost  $8.33 
>>>>>>> per
>>>>>>> month.  This service hosts Mozilla's newsgroups separately from its
>>>>>>> general list of newsgroups.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll second the vote for E-S.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll third it.
>>>>
>>>> Yep. Ray does a good job of keeping it going.
>>>>
>>>> For a backup I use Solani since Albasani went.
>>>
>>> Albasani is the one I was using.
>>>
>>>
>> I use news.eternal-september.org most of the time and sometimes
>> news.aioe.org or news.tolanet.com when e-s sometimes gets flaky.
> 
> What do you mean by "flalei"?
> 
> Does it happen with the paid for servers?
> 
> 
Flaky to me means site is down or not working properly like when I post 
something and it does not show up but I find it posted in one of the 
other groups.

I googled up a list of half dozen free servers and clicking on the urls 
only about half came up.
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