4 Jun
2011
4 Jun
'11
8:46 p.m.
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, madodel wrote:
But not everyone has access to a usenet server
anymore. If there are any
free ones left they are limited or have other problems, like poor retention.
My ISP still provides Usenet, but I know a lot of people who's ISP killed
their usenet service completely. So Usenet is becoming less available. Yes
hobbes is an archive, but there are mirrors so it wouldn't be lost entirely,
except for the history of it being one of the first and largest of it's kind.
If every provider kills their Usenet servers then the network dies. And
Google sucks for Usenet, so don't even go there.
As Dave McGuire says, he runs a server. There are also news.albasani.net
and news.eternal-september.org. Those are good too.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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