[olug] The NNTP Cox at Hell limitation problem

[Tim Russell]

I used a pay NNTP service for a while back in '96 - news.zippo.com (Of
course, now Zippo lighters has the domain).  It was pretty decent - wide
range of news groups with high retention rate - which is why I chose it over
my ISP's server.  Can't speak to throughput though, since it was all 14.4
modems for me then =)

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Cashell [mailto:topher at zyp.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 2:30 AM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: Re: [olug] The NNTP Cox at Hell limitation problem


On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 10:04:02PM -0500, Timothy G. O'Brien wrote:
> Let me further elaborate on some questions then: What other
> "broadband" access do my fellow OLUG users have in the Omahell area,
> and do they have this same limitation (and is it enforced)?

Provided you live west of I-680 (approximately), you can get Qwest
Choice Online[1], their cable modem service.  I've been happy with their
service, and know of no NNTP caps.

> You mentioned pay for nntp access - some sort of subscriber access?
> Does any one have any experience with these that  they would be
> willing to share?

I don't have any personal experience with this, but I have a friend
who's done this for quite some time.  I can try to get a hold of him and
see what his experiences have been.

> Since I am looking at moving my NNTP experience to the Linux platform
> - what NNTP clients are you using out there for single & multi post
> newsgroups?

I generally use slrn, a very nice, customizable, threaded news reader.
It reminds me a lot of mutt, is much like what one would get if you
created a mutt 'variant' designed for news reading instead of e-mail.

For those with a more GUI bent, recent releases of Mozilla have gotten
the Mozilla news client into a very usable and functional state.

> Adam Lassek <hayai2 at home.com> wrote:

[1] Though I don't think I'm really biased, having used multiple cable
modem and DSL providers, and a strong understanding of them, I should
point out that I used to do the computer side of cable modem
installations for USWest/Qwest.

--
Christopher

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