Or you can just use google groups over the web for free.

Gene wrote:
On 9 Dec 2006 17:43:14 -0800, "jiminfl" wrote:


You can pay for unlimited access to Usenet using one of the news
groups out there. I use Easynews as a feeder to my own domain - great
deal and it works very well. Never had any downtime.

Much too complicated for me to deal with. You lost me with propigating
Urls, setting up news feeds, my server, web space. Have a Happy,
Joyous, and Merry __________________
Jim

Let's try it a little easier. AFAIK, there are only two ways to obtain
USENET news....

an "IHAVE" feed, which you are going to have to pay some really big
bucks for and is really for USENET servers that have lots of
subscribers (you aren't going to want to go this way), or

a "Dynamic Suck Feed", which is kinda like your newsreader on
steroids. It is just a program, resident on your computer, that
downloads USENET posts from 1 or more remote servers. (Actually, you
set it up a lot like your own news reader.) Then..... and this is the
only difference... your news reader downloads from *your* server
rather than *theirs*.

Now, I set up my own news server so that I could have incredibly
configurable filtering when this newsgroup hit the wall a couple of
years ago with the rep/dem/blue/red/he sucks/they suck posts. I also
found it convenient that it merged the feeds of multiple servers. That
is no longer required since I use a news client that will download
from multiple servers, but I do keep the server running so I have
access outside my ISP's local domain and for the filter attributes.

If you are looking for better overall performance.... the easiest (by
far) and cheapest way to go about that is to find a decent news
provider. (Let them do all of the hard stuff.) This would be my
personal recommendation..... $6.00/mo and reliable, rock solid
service:
http://www.usenet-access.com/
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