Free Usenet Access?

[ItsMetaKnight]

anyone knows any alternative for hitnews which is now no longer accepting ppl outside of netherlands? thanx
i want access to alt.binaries

 

[FAST6191]

Check your ISP. UK ones are not that special but BT have a giganews hookup (unlimited as far as I can tell about 180 kbyte/s and 3 connections, everything else as giganews (retention, completion...)):
http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm

 

[Little]

What FAST said... other than that, i would recommend paying for usenet news with the chunks. Its pretty cheap considering what you get.

 

[Dack]

Hitnews *IS* a pay service - they offer free trials of a few days duration. I guess that ItsMetaKnight has been using free email addresses to extend the period somewhat.

I'm still using them at the moment (when Virgin, my free one don't have the entries).

 

[wabo]

www.xlned.com is pretty cheap. I just payed 25$ Canadian for 6 month of unlimited bandwidth. That's a 2.5 mbits package but conveniently, that's my connection speed so paying more would be pretty dumb. That is one 25$ dollar well spent in my book.