# Is there a decent web-accessible Usenet server? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 19, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959 "2004-10-19T02:01:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/1 "2004-10-19T02:01:18Z")
I like my baseball and movie newsgroups, but alas, can’t access by cable-provided news server from the road. And in my job, I’m on the road a LOT. And the SDMB only provides so many posts per hour. Are there any decent FREE accessible news servers, either Web-based or usable thru Outlook? And if not, any affordable ones? ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/2 "2004-10-19T02:05:06Z")
[groups.google.com](http://groups.google.com) ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/3 "2004-10-19T02:10:21Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I like my baseball and movie newsgroups, but alas, can’t access by cable-provided news server from the road. And in my job, I’m on the road a LOT. And the SDMB only provides so many posts per hour. > > Are there any decent FREE accessible news servers, either Web-based or usable thru Outlook? > > And if not, any affordable ones? [http://www.individual.net](http://www.individual.net) Accounts are free. ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/4 "2004-10-19T02:11:46Z")
> [@Berkut](#): > > [groups.google.com](http://groups.google.com) This server is incomplete because Google honors the X-no-archive header. This can be a problem in a NG where many people use that header. ---
**Author:** ![Berkut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e57/32.png) [@Berkut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Berkut)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/5 "2004-10-19T02:14:12Z")
Still decent and free, though. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/6 "2004-12-22T17:35:46Z")
I’m resurrecting this because, well, I want to know if there’s a decent web-accessible usenet service. I’ve been using dejanews, which became google something but worked the same. Fantastic, just browse through a hierarchy to the group I wanted, see the current threads, read the ones I wanted, and if I wanted to read it regular-like, set a bookmark for the page with the latest threads. Now Google’s gone and changed it to some kind of ‘Google groups’ interface, pushing the google-owned groups, and making it impossible to find a group that you don’t already know exists. So, anybody know of any alternatives offering a deja-news like interface? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/7 "2004-12-23T01:50:23Z")
The following address may help some: [http://freenews.maxbaud.net/](http://freenews.maxbaud.net/) Although as far as I can see it’s mostly reference to news-servers it may have web-based items, too. ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/8 "2004-12-23T02:24:20Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > I’m resurrecting this because, well, I want to know if there’s a decent web-accessible usenet service. > > I’ve been using dejanews, which became google something but worked the same. > Fantastic, just browse through a hierarchy to the group I wanted, see the current threads, read the ones I wanted, and if I wanted to read it regular-like, set a bookmark for the page with the latest threads. > > Now Google’s gone and changed it to some kind of ‘Google groups’ interface, pushing the google-owned groups, and making it impossible to find a group that you don’t already know exists. > > So, anybody know of any alternatives offering a deja-news like interface? [http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Usenet/Web\_Based/](http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Usenet/Web_Based/) Dunno if any of these can do what you want. Also, WHY do you need web based? A good newsreader and NNTP server should be able to give you what you want. ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-decent-web-accessible-usenet-server/269959/9 "2004-12-23T03:35:02Z")
> [@rfgdxm](#): > > This server is incomplete because Google honors the X-no-archive header. This can be a problem in a NG where many people use that header. The new Google Groups beta actually keeps X-No-Archive posts for 7 days anyway.