but sadly those have mostly all gone away - I believe comcast closed shut theirs down back in 2008.īut there are many news readers out there. You can pay the provider of usenet server, like giganews or use can use something like usenext which provides you access to multiple providers of usenet servers from what I can tell.īack in the day most ISPs ran their own news servers tied to usenet, which you use to be able to access. If your looking for access to binary newsgroups - then your pretty much going to have to pay. There are still some FREE usenet servers, but unlikely they would contain binary - most only text messages. You have to pay to use this 'service' But yes once you pay you can use pretty much any news reader. UseNeXT is the only facilitator that connects you with the 8 server farms of the most important Usenet providers: For over 5 years we have been offering service that inspires: Maximum Downstream from the first second on. UseNeXT is one of the leading providers for the access to the Usenet. usenext is a specific service that provides access to usenet. These are the standard url schemes that would be registered on your computer to use a specific client to access, etc. Two syntaxes are defined for URL specification of Usenet (NetNews): Network News / Usenet URL Syntaxes (news) This is a different URL type for news access: Network News Transfer Protocol URL Syntax (nttp) The url scheme used for usenet is news://Įxamples of ways to access a nttp server. Usenext: is not a standard url scheme or protocol prefix that I am aware of.

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