Verizon Newsgroups

Roy,

You may wish to investigate the Verizon FAQ:

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Most of what I saw was complaining. No numbers.

LB

A VERY informative site, well worth reading in its entirety for any Verizon DSL Customer. From the site... "If you Outlook Express has finished downloading about 35000 newsgroups available on the Verizon NNTP server, you can now subscribe to the newsgroups you're interested in."

There is much other excellent info.

LB

A total of 29842 newsgroups available according to my newsreader.

Good post. I am thinking of saving $ by going to DSL.

LB

I'm currently seeing nearly 30,000 groups on the Verizon Newsservers.

There are other providers that may have a higher *total* number of newsgroups but the things that matter are *completeness* and

That said, I'm pretty staisfied with my newsgroup experience at Verizon. My subscribed newsgroups are almost *all* text only groups. I'm not a big binaries person but others have praised Verizon for having excellent completeness and better than average retention.

One longstanding issue is bandwidth saturation during busy hours (mostly evenings). The two server farms (one in DC one in NY) are currently saturating their *GIGABIT* newtorks during busy hours.

The news admins (Rick and Jeremy, really excellent guys BTW!!) have requested additional bandwidth. We'll see if their request is granted.

Final disclaimer - While I am a Verizon Online subscriber, I am also a Verizon employee. My comments are my personal observations as a subscriber and are not to be construed as company policy.

John