[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Free news (nntp) server?

[Ant]

"Steven Maesslein" wrote:

> x-privat.org is rather heavily infested with trolls and k00ks. NANAE
> would be unreadable without killfiling stuff that comes through
> x-privat, plus.net and googlegroups - even then it's not always easy
> separating the wheat from the chaff.

Just because Brad uses x-privat and Moris uses Plusnet is no reason
to tar everyone who uses those services with the same brush. I think
it was once suggested that nanae-ites kill posts from my ISP because
Moris happened to have a dialup account there. He could easily have a
pay-as-you-go account from all the major UK ISPs and you'd end up
seeing no posts from the UK.

As for Google, some mail admins post from there primarily because they
are not regular Usenet users. Also there is the problem as shown by
the OP; i.e. it seems the unfortunate trend is that more ISPs are no
longer providing a news (nntp) service, so people's first port of call
is Google Groups.

I use both aioe and x-privat to get to groups that my server doesn't
carry, and to be able to see posts that for some reason are dropped
from the feed. Aioe is free and anonymous, but is slow and often down.
X-privat is now subscription, but occasionally gives out free invites.
You can subscribe to x-privat.info without having to log on, in order
to watch for the invitation code announcements.