[donnacha]

Originally Posted by oldengine

Has anyone successfully implemented posting? If so, what usenet provider do you use and at what cost?

I spent quite a while checking out the free servers but couldn't find any that allow posting and there seem to be questions of reliability, so, I started comparison-shopping among the most highly recommended pay services.

Under the assumption that our usage won't need as much download-allowance as the average usenet user downloading gig after gig of warez and pron, I decided that the best option was to buy 25gigs, non-expiring, from http://www.news.astraweb.com/ for a once-off payment of $10.

So far, the intensive initial sent up (involving downloading 10,000+ posts stretching back a month or so) and few days of updating, has used up about 6k of my 25G. At this rate, that $10 should cover me for several years!

One important thing to note is that I haven't actually experimented with posting although I can confirm that their server is sending back headers indicating that my account is allowed to post.