| Newsguy offers two
levels of individual Usenet accounts - Basic Newsguy and Extra
Newsguy. The chart below indicates the features included with each type of
account. Click the "Details" link after each feature for an expanded
description. Basic Newsguy accounts are $25 for one year of service. Extra Newsguy offers
one month ($10.95), 6 month ($39.95) and 12 month ($69.95) accounts.  Click here for special .EDU
Subscription Discounts!
| Subscription Type |
Basic
 |
Extra
|
| Length of Subscription |
12
Month |
1
Month |
6
Month |
12
Month |
| Number of Usenet News Groups (Details) |
7,500 |
25,000+ |
25,000+ |
25,000+ |
| Web and NNTP Usenet Access (Details) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
10MB Mail Box (Details) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Personal Web Page Space (Details) |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
| Sound/Image Usenet Archives (Details) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Free Downloads (Details) |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Usenet Message Search (Details) |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Service Cost |
$25 |
$10.95 |
$39.95 |
$69.95 |
| Savings over 1 month
subscription |
- |
- |
$19.75 |
$49.45 |
Usenet
News - Basic Newsguy members have access to over 7,500 Usenet discussion groups,
and Extra Newsguy members have access to over 25,000. Our newsgroups are kept virtually
spam-free by our Spam Hippo, the most widely used de-spamming software we wrote and
distribute free of charge to international and national telco's, ISP's and other news
services. If a particular newsgroup is a must for you, please review the complete list of
newsgroups carried by each service prior to signing up.
View Basic Newsguy's Complete Newsgroup List
View Extra Newsguy's Complete Newsgroup List
Web
and NNTP Access - Read, post, and decode through our web-based news interface
(Direct Read News), or through a traditional NNTP newsreader. Direct Read News allows you
to create and configure all of your personal news settings including subscribe list, page
length, sort options, from: address, organization and posting signature.
Email
Accounts - A free, 10MB email box comes with a membership to our Extra Newsguy
service. These can be accessed with a standard email client like Eudora, or with our web
interface which lets you send/recieve email, and setup personal filters to remove unwanted
junk email. Standalone email accounts can also be purchased for $29 a year.
Member
Web Sites - 6 and 12 month Extra Newsguy members can take advantage of
20MB of
free web space that we offer them, to create their own personal or business website.
Usenet
Archive - Sounds and images drawn from some of the more popular newsgroups.
Frequently updated.
Free Downloads - Commonly (and not so commonly!) used
Internet software applications categorized by function for your downloading enjoyment.
Categories include Accessories, Audio Viewers, Compress & Encoding, Finger &
Whois, FTP Clients, Games, Graphic Viewers, Home & Personal, HTML Editors, HTML Tools,
IRC Apps, Mail Clients, Media Viewers, News Tickers, Newsreaders, Plug-In Modules, Screen
Savers, Telnet, Testing Utilities, VRML Browsers, and WWW Browsers.
Usenet Message
Search - Extra Newsguy members can search all messages carried on Newsguy.
Perform a general search, message ID search, or subject, author, or organization search.
Please review our Service Policy before signing up! |
