Free Newsgroups?

Yottanews also offers a free (trial) newsgroup service, including binary groups. You just need to do a quick registration to set it up (no credit card or other info needed) and you can then download up to 1GB per IP address.

The biggest problem is that the speed is extremely slow (256kbits) and the retention is only about 2 or 3 weeks. But you can't beat the price. :)

http://www.yottanews.com:8080/freeaccount.php
 
There is no such thing as a free newsgroup provider. Its either a verry limited service or a trial service.

easynews.nl for example is free to try at the moment:

news.easynews.nl (port 119)
login : [email protected]
password : beta

8 connections 20Mbit
 
geen said:
There is no such thing as a free newsgroup provider. Its either a verry limited service or a trial service.

easynews.nl for example is free to try at the moment:

news.easynews.nl (port 119)
login : [email protected]
password : beta

8 connections 20Mbit
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this one still works great, no limits, great speeds an free! retention is up to 50 days now. It's still running free cause they keep testing their services. Don't know how long it will last. but if your looking for great speeds try it! :)
 
kiosk said:
try https://www.usenet.net/signup/?account=USENET-10GB-FREE

10Gb download limit, 10 connections, 70 days binary retention.

just use false details, no credit card needed.
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That is ONLY a 30 day TRIAL....it is not permenant. I think the poster was asking if there were any permenant free news hosting servers...the answer to that other than an ISP server is no.
 
erdniZ said:
Im getting free from my ISP good speed and 100day retention
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If it's from your ISP, your not getting it free. The monthly (or whatever your contract payment plan is) fee you pay goes towards providing newsgroup access to you.

There will never be free fast, high retention news servers until a huge overhaul occurs that will limit costs (internet2 full distribution maybe ? :P). Easynews is as good as it gets until the beta trial expires. I'm using Usenetserver and it isn't a bad choice either for $15 USD a month.
 
possibly, but the I could look at may mean he just wants to see which is best and if you signup every 30 days it is permanent. Just use a different email address each time.
 
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