The "new" news service at Sympatico

[Mel Wilson]

Paul King wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2006 at 13:27, Mel Wilson spaketh these wourdes:

[ ... ]
> All USENET servers will miss entire newsgroups (nobody wants to carry groups that 
> no one reads), and they will add them if you ask. But if you ever comapred 
> Sympatico with even the cheapest server out there (such as  the Free servers I 
> used), Sympatico's completion WITHIN newsgroups was pathetic even compared with a 
> free server! Not only would multipart posts be missing but scores of single-posts 
> also. [ ... ]

True.  The free server in Berlin was fantastic while it
lasted.  After it went to a paid service in euros I went
back to the-wire's service and found out they'd contracted
with a really good back-end, that seemed as good as the
Berlin one.  (Might have been usenetserver.com, which seems
to be what they're using now.)  I would have to use dial-up
to get there.
> 
>> Worst is the new basic service doesn't allow posting.  I 
>> have an email in asking what the extended service costs, 
>> before I click "activate", but I've got no answer yet.
> 
> Just check the bell newshosting site:
>    https://controlpanel.newshosting.com/newssignup/signup/?r=91809
> for a price structure.
> 
> Warning: the only news reader they recommend is Outlook Express. The free service 
> failed on my copies of Agent and PAN.  

!!! Not only that, it amounts to a 25% price hike for the
high-speed account.

sales-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org is strangely quiet lately.

Maybe Magma would be worth the switch, as long as there
isn't going to be a large-cap ISP stampede toward unbundling.

Any advice?

          Cheers,        Mel.

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