Re: Usenet access.

[Joe Pfeiffer]

songbird  writes:

> pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
>> sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for 
>> access without tedious complications.
>
>   i really liked individual.net and gladly paid them for
> the service, it wasn't much, but then they stopped taking
> overseas payments so i had to find another service.
>
>   eternal-september works well for my use now, but it does
> have hiccups here or there.  so it's good to be patient
> and go read a book or something here or there.

What sort of hiccups?  It's been years and years since I've noticed any
sort of outage.

Re: Usenet access.

[songbird]

Dan Ritter wrote:
> songbird wrote: 
...
>>   i really liked individual.net and gladly paid them for
>> the service, it wasn't much, but then they stopped taking
>> overseas payments so i had to find another service.
>
> They will take PayPal internationally; I don't know if it's
> worthwhile for you to deal with PayPal just for them, though.

  it wasn't back then when the switch came up.  if things
for me change i'll look into it.


  songbird

Re: Usenet access.

[songbird]

Anssi Saari wrote:
> songbird  writes:
>
>>   eternal-september works well for my use now, but it does
>> have hiccups here or there.  so it's good to be patient
>> and go read a book or something here or there.
>
> What kind of hiccups? I haven't noticed but I see in my Gnus config file
> there have been issues connecting via SSL in 2014 and 2017 but even then
> the plain connection worked fine.

  some periods of time where i couldn't post or times
when there were no articles coming in.  eventually it
gets resolved.


  songbird

Re: Usenet access.

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 12:09:27PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:

Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to
sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for
access without tedious complications.


https://www.eternal-september.org is a private, but free text-only
Usenet service. It offers the sci.* hierarchy and carries the group you
want.

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Re: Usenet access.

[Anssi Saari]

songbird  writes:

>   eternal-september works well for my use now, but it does
> have hiccups here or there.  so it's good to be patient
> and go read a book or something here or there.

What kind of hiccups? I haven't noticed but I see in my Gnus config file
there have been issues connecting via SSL in 2014 and 2017 but even then
the plain connection worked fine.

Re: Usenet access.

[Richmond]

pe...@easthope.ca writes:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
> sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for 
> access without tedious complications.
>
> Thx,   ... P.

news.aioe.org has it

Re: Usenet access.

[Dan Ritter]

songbird wrote: 
> pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
> > sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for 
> > access without tedious complications.
> 
>   i really liked individual.net and gladly paid them for
> the service, it wasn't much, but then they stopped taking
> overseas payments so i had to find another service.

They will take PayPal internationally; I don't know if it's
worthwhile for you to deal with PayPal just for them, though.

-dsr-

Re: Usenet access.

[songbird]

pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
> sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for 
> access without tedious complications.

  i really liked individual.net and gladly paid them for
the service, it wasn't much, but then they stopped taking
overseas payments so i had to find another service.

  eternal-september works well for my use now, but it does
have hiccups here or there.  so it's good to be patient
and go read a book or something here or there.


  songbird

Re: Usenet access.

[Joe]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 12:09:27 -0800
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
> sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for 
> access without tedious complications.
> 

Depends on usage. Note the paid subscriptions often do a data block
plan which they may not advertise prominently. I use about one 10GB
block a year:

https://www.tweaknews.eu/en/usenet-plans

I did use NewsDemon, with which I was very happy, until one day it just
stopped working with my setup and I was unable to restore a connection.

https://www.newsdemon.com/usenet-access

Note that some block plans expire after a time limit.

-- 
Joe

Re: Usenet access.

[황병희]

pe...@easthope.ca writes:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
> sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for 
> access without tedious complications.

+ september with Gnus!

Sincerely, Byung-Hee

Re: Usenet access.

[Dan Ritter]

Thomas Hochstein wrote: 
> pe...@easthope.ca schrieb:
> 
> > Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
> > sci.electronics.repair.
> 
>  - free
> (private one-man show, but very reliable)
> 
>  - 10 EUR/year (about 11,40 $)
> (offered by the Computer Centre of the Free University of Berlin)

I use both of these with leafnode. Recommended.

-dsr-

Re: Usenet access.

[Joe Pfeiffer]

I've been using eternal-september.org for well over a decade.

Re: Usenet access.

[Thomas Hochstein]

pe...@easthope.ca schrieb:

> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
> sci.electronics.repair.

 - free
(private one-man show, but very reliable)

 - 10 EUR/year (about 11,40 $)
(offered by the Computer Centre of the Free University of Berlin)

Re: Usenet access.

[Roy J. Tellason, Sr.]

On Monday 17 January 2022 03:09:27 pm pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
> sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for 
> access without tedious complications.
> 
> Thx,   ... P.
> 

They're on groups.io:

https://groups.io/g/Sci-Electronics-Repair/

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Usenet access.

[peter]

Hi,

Can anyone suggest an alternative to Google Groups for access to 
sci.electronics.repair.  I'd be happy to pay a small subscription for 
access without tedious complications.

Thx,   ... P.

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