List of Free Newsservers

[bigdaddyo811]

Can we create a list of free newsservers and make it a sticky?

[Eejit]

Isn't that what's here? http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=51.0
In my (limited) experiance, free newsservers tend to come and go, are up and down, so a list wouldn't neccessary be the right thing.
The discussion about them is more 'up-to-date'

IMHO

[bigdaddyo811]

That feed seems dead.

Anyone know a website that lists active ipv6 free newsservers?

How much are the good newsservers? I'm d/l 30 gigs a week

bdo

[Camelot]

in my limited experience, you will struggle to download 30gigs. I tried for about 2 weeks to use an assortment of free newsservers, and I ended up downloading roughly 5gigs. I had a constant queue of items, it was just the servers were either:
a. unreliable (ie more down then up)
b. have speed caps
c. have block amounts that can be downloaded

In the end, I gave up and found a cheap provider

[bigdaddyo811]

who is a cheap provider?

[twpux]

I don't use them myself, but have heard good things about Astraweb, SSL and 160 days retention. If you sign up with this link: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html , you get unlimited downloads for $11 per month. Check out their block accounts too.

I use block accounts from Usenet-News, SSL and 120+ days retention (the oldest post i downloaded was 150+ days). Not a very professional homepage, but the server-park is good (highwinds), never had any problems. If you decide to give them a try, please use this referral code: 65583 

[rascalli]

Providers can be found here : http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=48.0

Free servers can be found here : http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=51.0


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