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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: How To Improve This Group
Date: 12 Apr 2025 02:59:08 GMT
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 19:30:36 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> Luckily for those who like Usenet, there are free servers around that
> they can use. However, there is no reason to believe that they'll be
> around forever. If ever the people running Eternal September decide to
> stop their operations and paid servers become the only game in town, I
> doubt that Usenet will have even the number of users it has today.

I've used individual.net at the Free University of Berlin for years. It wa 
free but now costs 10 Euros / year. It was about $15 but fell 
considerably. The Euro rebounded to 1.14 USD today, the highest in three 
years. Still a bargain. It doesn't do binary groups, but neither do I.