For those interested...
XS Usenet are offering free lifetime usenet access, its limited to 1Mbps, but hey, its free
http://www.xsusenet.com/Useful if your not in a rush..
Uh, they have problems with their SSL it seems. Wouldn't advise using Usenet without ssl/proxy.
What problems? working for me on 563 :S
Their listed port is 433? Wurd.
Edit: Not sure why they are listing the https ssl port instead of the nntps port!
Reader: reader.xsusenet.com
Port(s): 119, 80, 563(SSL), 443(SSL)
*Download secure via SSL*
XS Usenet allows you to connect to our service using an encrypted connection. For usage of SSL you will need to configure your settings to use ports 563 or 443. For regular connections you may use 80 or 119.
From my activation email, in case it helps.
if your on virgin media, you can use their servers free,i get all of my stuff on there......
now follows the bit were everyone will tell me how crap they are,
throttling, retention times etc...
been using it for years before it was virgin and get a steady 2 meg at night.
XS Usenet are offering free lifetime usenet access
Nah. 1Mbps? Might as well use dial-up.
Use these instead:
http://www.eternal-september.org/http://aioe.org/Both free and well maintained.
This one is 10€/year but well worth it:
http://news.individual.net/They all support SSL.
Their listed port is 433? Wurd.
Edit: Not sure why they are listing the https ssl port instead of the nntps port!
https is 443, not 433.
They're doing this for users of ISPs that block outgoing access to 119 (nntp) or 563 (nntps) but allow access to secure (https://) websites.
Wonderful these posts in code!
Dunno if others can make sense of it all - I can't
Snod
Pretty heavy restrictions on those 2. Turns out I get usenet access with my vpn subscription, fortunately
