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   From: rl3166pls@excite.com   
      
   Steuard Jensen wrote:   
   > In message <>, Julian Bradfield   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On 2009-06-10, Troels Forchhammer  wrote:   
   >>> I really wish that I had a golden solution -- I certainly share   
   >>> your distaste for web forums, but if someone was to find a suitable   
   >>> web-forum that has some reasonable threading, I suppose it could   
   >>> be tempting   
   >   
   >> What's the advantage of a specific web forum over a specific (free)   
   >> NNTP server? (Does IE have a news client built in?)   
   >   
   > Well, to begin with, I haven't actually managed to locate any free   
   > NNTP servers that allow posting and reliably propagate said posts to   
   > the rest of Usenet, not that I've been looking long.   
      
   I've had good results with (free) news.motzarella.org.  Go to   
   www.motzarella.org to sign up.  (For some reason just today their NNTP   
   server name has been renamed to news.eternal-september.org.)  Good retention   
   and propagation.   
      
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