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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:43:08 -0500
From: John Colagioia <JColagioia@csi.com>
Organization: No Conspiracy Here...
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In case anybody's interested, I use the mail server from mailops.com.  The good
news is that they're free (with registration--also free) and allow posting.  The
bad news is that they only download articles when sufficient demand exists for
them, which means I get to wait between a week or two, on average, to get the
latest batch of articles.  Today is one of those batches...

Oh, well...

Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:

> "Kathleen M. Fischer" <greenGargoyle@MailAndNews.com> wrote:
> > Ok... in light of the (hopefully temporary) demise of Deja, Does anyone have
> > any suggestions for a free replacement?
> There's RemarQ; I don't recall details except that I didn't
> like it as well as using a real newsreader with my ISP's
> nntp server -- but if you don't have access to an nntp
> server it might be worth a look.
>
> Someone else mentioned a list of free/open nntp servers.
> My experience has been that it's relatively easy to find
> one that's read-only and a bit harder to find one that
> allows posting.  And ones that allow posting tend to
> become defunct after the spammers discover them and
> news admins start aliasing them out out of self defense.
> It's a shame that it has to be that way; theoretically
> a news server could be free (gratis) without being
> open to this sort of abuse by requiring users to sign
> up for an account, provide a working email address,
> respond to a mail sent there, mail in a check for
> $0.01 that will never be cashed but has a physical
> name and address, et cetera, but AFAIK it hasn't
> been done.
>
> - jonadab

