Does OOL have a news server?
Yes, OOL has a newserver for OOL subscribers and it’s included with your subscription. It is located at “news.optonline.net”. They have about 35,000 newsgroups available, DL speed is very good (as would be expected), and retention time is about a week for the non-binaries groups, and a couple of days for the binaries groups. Unfortunately, there seem to be more incomplete posts in the binaries groups lately. IMO, not bad for a package deal, but they could do better. There are other subscription new servers (i.e. Altopia , Newsguy , Supernews , Usenetserver , Newscene , etc.) which you can subscribe to (for a fee) if you need a more complete service.
