Re: newsreader that doesn't require ISP account?

On 2008-01-02, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers wrote:

On 2008-01-01, gearhead <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I use Google Groups to read and post to newsgroups, because I don't
have my own internet service; I have to use the wi-fi at libraries,
cafes and the like.
But the sporging is getting worse, so I'm looking for a way to filter
it out. I can't filter/killfile with Google Groups, so I need to
find another way to access usenet. I can't use one of the
conventional newsreaders, like Agent, because they require an ISP
account.
I haven't found much. I tried news.interbulletin.com but it doesn't
seem to have any filtering capability.
I'd gladly pay a few dollars a month for a service not tied to a
particular ISP but works everywhere, coffee shops, the public library
etc. Looking for suggestions or advice.

See 'Feed Services' and 'Public News Servers' at
<http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/>. I can recommend Individual.net
which charges only 10 Euros a year <http://www.individual.net/>.
Datemas.de is a well-established free service <http://news.datemas.de/> -
their filtering out of garbage is rather less efficient than that achieved
by Individual.net.

You do not need an ISP account to use any news-reader, as far as I'm
aware; just an internet connection and an account with a News Service
Provider (NSP).

I wonder how many Biff's Donuts joints have everything but web browsing
blocked, since most of the kidz today probably aren't doing anything but
webmail and web browsing. You know...the web "is" the Internet, and all?

That's a matter of finding a decent 'hot spot', I imagine; although I've
heard that some NSPs accept port 80 connections, which might get past such
'nothing but the web' blocking. I haven't tried to use any public hot
spots (free or otherwise) so I don't know what they're like over here. I
can see why the 'free' ones might want to block 'games', VoIP, P2P, and
such things, and binary newsgroups have given usenet a horrible
reputation.

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