Time to switch Usenet providers :-(

Forgive the crossposting, but comp.sys.mac.comm isn't as widely read as
I wish it was.

Anyway, I'm currently with Forte APN
<http://www.forteinc.com/apn/index.php>,
but they've gone to hell since
they switched from Supernews (R.I.P.) to Easynews.

Here is Forte's last communication with me:

> > On 4/12/2008 at 2:13 PM, Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > No offence, but things were much better before your move to a new
> > provider :-(
> 
> 
> I am sorry for this. The old provider went out of business (supernews
was
> bought by Giganews, and they closed down the supernews servers).
> 
> If you still can't get this to work right, perhaps you should look for a
> different server. It's not that we don't want your business, it's that
you
> are having problems for so long now and we cannot fix them for you. I
wish
> there was something I could do. But I am at the mercy of the upstream
> provider, Easynews.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark
> 
> --
> Mark Prince
> Forte Internet Sup****t Dept.
> www.forteinc.com

I can see from searching with Google Groups that I am far from Forte
APN's only unhappy customer since the changeover.

Well - fine. If APN/Easynews won't fix their newsfeed after months of
hassle, I guess it's time to move *sigh* Hell, I even had MacSOUP's
author - Stefan Haller - looking into my troubles with APN at one point.
Forte even gave him a test account. But ultimately no joy in getting
these troubles sorted. Obviously the problems were not MacSOUP's fault
because I had almost zero problems with APN/Supernews over ... four
years I think? It's been a long, long time and APN/Supernews was almost
always rock solid.

I saw a recommendation from Dave Balderstone just now for
individual.net. I infrequently access binary groups so I suppose they're
a possibility. Any other recommendations? :-)

TIA,
 Jamie Kahn Genet
-- 
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.