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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Another FOSS Gem
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 01:35:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-22, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 May 2024 08:53:02 -0400, Andrzej Matuch wrote:
>
>> Well, if you can name a few Internet service providers which still
>> provide Usenet access, be my guest. Google, for its part, has finally
>> disconnected Usenet. It seems that the only people who know about Usenet
>> now are people who were around in the 90s and grew up with it.
>
> The ISP I was using dropped Usenet sometime in the early 2000's. It takes 
> a lot of storage to run a NNTP node. Even when it was still up I got much 
> better performance from a server in Berlin than the one 8 miles away.

That was my experience with the last provider who offered Usenet (in the 
early or mid 2000's). They contracted to another company for Usenet, I would 
tell them that Usenet was NOT working and they would refer me to the 
contracting company who NEVER responded. That's when I went with the German 
outfit (which eventually became individual.net and became a paid service). I 
tried to pay them but the billing outfit they were using didn't like 
something about my debit card — so I ended up going to eternal-september 
(another German outfit). I've been with them ever since.

-- 
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entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
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