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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Another FOSS Gem Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 01:37:34 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <v2m6ku$1hgsi$2@dont-email.me> References: <17d05e981fe6d8d5$29125$542956$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <v28pv7$2e0sb$1@dont-email.me> <6647f2ff$0$7053$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <v2bem2$30s59$1@dont-email.me> <lat7tcFavq1U2@mid.individual.net> <1rpj4j1rrr31oisr5nkisuos0jvsqtim4a@4ax.com> <v2j5m1$pinq$4@dont-email.me> <v2j6tl$orv7$1@dont-email.me> <aafq4jlghjlc5ri5arkv9etvek17m243m7@4ax.com> <v2jfoe$qocj$1@dont-email.me> <jgqr4jt8mamkhlt3fven2ml65v4n3ruiqp@4ax.com> <lb6echFmvcuU2@mid.individual.net> <1q3s4j198f2rcibb5c3npjv1g93t7ldd9i@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 03:37:35 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c6575166c8d89d229a5c0ddeb98fa65f"; logging-data="1622930"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/DZSd2WgU2Fah6C1xCwfQv" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ezcL8H3KnC+ZSDaU7m1fQhhSDgs= Bytes: 2596 On 2024-05-22, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote: > On 22 May 2024 14:39:13 GMT, 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 back when people uploaded lots of pirated content to the > alt.binaries groups. I doubt they still do. I've only used text on Usenet. Individual.net and eternal-september.org have never had binary newsgroups. That was all I ever needed. -- [Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." "It was pride that changed angels into devils..." — St. Augustine