Re: [Pan-users] [OT] Commercial news servers

[Charles Kerr]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:23:45PM -0400, John LeMay wrote:
> 
> 
> > High-bandwidth Usenet accounts are cheap here, but not free.
> > I use usenetserver.com's 'bronze' plan, which is 6.25 GB/mo
> > for $69.96 for 6 months.  Does anyone have a better price?
> 
> How about free? I looked around for a while when @home died and Comcast
> decided their users didn't need news as part of the package. I decided that
> I really didn't need binaries and went with a free, text only news provider.
> I get great throughput considering the server is in Germany.

http://news.cis.dfn.de is very cool; they're on Pan's intro-to-usenet page.

Which reminds me, I need to review that intro-to-Pan document this weekend. :)