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Posted by Balanced View on June 17, 2008, 4:28 pm
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Ulysses wrote:
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>> The alt.* heirarchy isn't going anywhere; just that
>> some ISPs won't contract out to provide them to their
>> customers any longer, and in the case of Time-Warner,
>> all news service is gone. I'd bet that Time-Warner
>> has been trying to figure out for awhile how to cut
>> news service, and Cuomo came along dressed as the
>> perfect excuse. Matter of fact, their announcement
>> doesn't even mention that, just that "since there is
>> such little demand for news service anymore..."
>> Yeah, RIGHT!
>>
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> When my news server was not responding last week I called my ISP and the
> "Tech" I spoke to didn't know what USENet was! Apparently there is me and
> maybe one other guy in all of DSLExtreme that uses USENet. Hard to beleive.
> This reminds me of the demise if IRC. Everyone was using it for chat etc
> then suddenly nobody was using it. At least newsgroups are still usable.
>
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>>> If all you want is access to text-only groups, there
>>>
>> are plenty of free servers out there. Unfortunately,
>> that's not the case for binaries. If you want access
>> to alt.binaries.coffee, for instance, there aren't any
>> completely free servers out there for that...
>>
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> Got any links for any free servers? All the ones I found were not really
> free. I ended up posting with Google (shudder).
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Aioe.org , it works most of the time
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