news servers

[hawkburn]

I'm wanting to try a new thing - news servers, and I know that SBC Yahoo has multiple servers that host these, but the question I have is that, are these free. I pay for ADSL 49.99 a month, so ya think these are free, or you know how I could find out. I have SBC Yahoo DSL, its actually SWBell DSL, but it recently switched to SBC Yahoo, anyway, I'm not going to be using it for warez, just for good news stories.

Anyway, any help is appreciated. Thanks

Chris

[Sephiroth]

your ISP usually includes news servers. Check their website or any of the info that you orginally got and see if it does.

[collideous]

Friend of mine has SBC Yahoo. They filter out most newsgroups, allowing text only. My friend is unable to browse newsgroups that share mp3s, pics, warez etc.

[aqlo]

Yahoo is as bad as Deja News. If you have DSL your provider almost certainly provides you with hundreds of newsgroups. The usual format to stick in your newsreader is like news.mydsl.com or whatever, just like you would put in pop.mydsl.com for your email. Newsgroups are just a different kind of email, Outlook will handle them but you should get a strong agent like NewsBin Pro for best results. This will allow you to search the headers for things that interest you and then download them all at once.

Yikes Yahoo took over your provider? I don't know what you might have then. There are a million news-providers but all the good ones want some money, that's why it's best to just have it from your ISP (unless you have something really bad to hide i guess, but even then wouldnt you just be making yourself even more obvious?)