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

[Frank Van Damme]

On Saturday 13 April 2002 01:16 pm, you wrote:
> > You're wrong :) . There 's still other things on the 'net then news
> > (really ;) ) and in most groups I read binaries are strictly prohibited.
> > If you're on the web a lot, like IRC and fancy a download every now and
> > then, flat-fee is a must.
>
> I have no idea what you are talking about here. what does www and irc have
> to do with a premium news account? a free text-only account nntp account
> could be handy to not use any of your 6.25G account on non-binary posts I
> guess, eh.

Sorry, was still babbling about ISP's, not 'pure' news providers...

> > And you just don't compare google groups to Pan do you???
>
> I think GG is very good for what it is. I have no cap so I almost always
> use Pan except for historical/old seaches. Find me a nntp server with 21
> years of articles on it, and ... well no I won't use it, imagine loading up
> 21 years worth of articles from comp.lang.c for example!

Pan has an option to download only the latest X messages ;-)

And google groups is indeed, the google of usenet - searching and posting 
when you can't get near a newsreader :)

> Pan can't compete with GG in some areas and GG can't compete in others,
> neither is 'better'.

Pan rules! :-) But apart from the fact it can't do full-text searches, Google 
groups is no match, I wouldn't like having to use google groups for regular 
posting and reading.

Frank



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