Did you post anything while you were using usenetnow?
Did you post anything while you were using usenetnow?
I didnt (I don't usually post only cause of my paltry to non-existant upload speeds). My week that I purchased is up now, but I may sign up for a week again as I need some HD stuff this week and I do not want to blow through my block account. I can try and post something if you would like, as long as it isn't to large. Is there something that I can post in particular? I imagine you are trying to test something?
Anything you could post would be fine, even a simple .txt file. Just want to find something posted through usenetnow so I can try and figure out who they are reselling
Last edited by UsenetGuy; 05-24-2009 at 06:45 PM.
It's ran by the same people at http://www.blocknews.net
DSL ReportsThe rep for both is swintec. You can contact him via Instant message him on dslreports.
I've been trying UsenetNow for a few days and have been able to download stuff over 200 days old. I think the real retention is closer to 210-215 days but UsenetNow only claim 185 days. Just be on the safe side I think.
Slyck UsenetNow
The quote above is not me, I use another provider.
Last edited by SonsOfLiberty; 05-25-2009 at 04:44 AM.
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They are reselling a company called readnews.com, never heard of them before personally. I signed up for a trial account and made a couple test posts to find out for myself. Anyone have any experience with readnews? According to their site they have been in business for a few years but I cant seem to find anyone else selling their service besides usenetnow.
Thanks for that information, just double checked that and you are right.
Readnews is quite a big usenet provider, mostly dealing with ISPs last time I checked. There have been quite a few readnews resellers over the past few years that i've known about but most of them have gone out of business. Only reseller that still exists (that I know of) other than usenetnow.net is usenetmonster.com
They both have good prices, if anyone needs a new usenet server you should look into them.
Last edited by UsenetGuy; 05-26-2009 at 11:17 PM.
Glad you found what you were looking for! Saves me from having to figure out how to post as it has been so long and i don't think I have ever done so with the news readers (or better yet, News Leechers!) of today.
Did you mean Usenetnow has good prices? I just signed up for my 2nd week long account earlier this afternoon and all is going well. Looks like I will be hitting up the in-town Wi-Fi a lot this week to get what I need. I can't complain, the babes at the coffee shop are a hot number.
I saw that they mentioned serving isps as customers but I wonder how many are left? AT&T, Comcast, Road Runner, etc have all dropped usenet access over the child porn scare. So they must have a lot of international clients or smaller isp's that still want this for their users. And supposedly readnews hasn't sold individual accounts since 2008 but I stumbled across a page on their site that offered me one.
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