Right - most people get free newsgroups through their ISP, and since you pay
the ISP the news groups aren't actually "free". You can access RCN news
server and I can access EarthLink's servers but I can't use RCN's and you
can't use EarthLink's. If you want newsgroups not carried by your ISP, you
may need to use a paid service (such as easynews.com or supernews.com)
depending on the newsgroup. These are but two of the many paid Usenet
services. In some cases, they carry each article much longer - for example,
some news servers might only carry this message for 7 days while paid
services will carry it for at least 30.
Microsoft and other technology companies host their own newsgroups (free)
for support of their own products - for example I use msnews.microsoft.com
to access this group instead of using the EarthLink servers.
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Akan Z. Scharf said:
MY ISP RCN provides them as part of the service. No extra charge.
You set up the newsgroup address as a separate account with server name,
e.g. news.rcn.com.
I personally use Outlook Express for newsgroups.
Alan
Diane Poremsky said:
you'll need to contact your ISP for the UseNet server they are associated
with.
but you can read and post from groups.google.com
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