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The only account I know of that permanently offers a free trial without a credit card is XenNews, which is the new service that HitNews has been transferring its non-Dutch customers to. http://www.xennews.com With (claimed) 200 day retention, a Xennews trial account makes a great fill-server. I used...

I've used them, and it's been a decent company for me (except for the frequent SSL problems I had on their "beta" SSL server, detailed in my previous post). Excellent tech support, in my experience with them. Emails to ngroups/usenet-news are usually answered within a few minutes, 24/7. I'...

I would probably favor a system that allowed for compressed headers and non-SSL bodies, without having to start another session (with different server connection details) whenever switching between them. Since a lot of providers (mainly Highwinds) started offering free SSL (about 2 years ago) as a n...

The ability to filter by author, NNTP provider, file size, file extension, number of parts, etc, all help, but there's just so much spammed virus junk these days that it can be hard to sort through. It seems that a lot of people still use the default Yencpowerpost or JBinUp usernames when they post,...

The virus-posters will of course keep changing their tactics. (I've noticed that the size of trojan files keeps getting bigger) It seems like many of them spam for a few hours before changing to a new username. Right now, they often use unique usernames and spew continuously, giving filtering tools ...

alex wrote: astraweb is running their own server software, so the question also whether others will be ready to add this behaviour to their server end.

I understand that this had already existed on Diablo.