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cox dropping support of usenet
"Effective June 30, 2010,
Cox Communications will discontinue Usenet service to our subscribers." They're pushing giganews, but I'm guessing google groups will be good enough. Any other suggestions? |
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cox dropping support of usenet
rcgldr wrote:
> "Effective June 30, 2010, > Cox Communications will discontinue Usenet service to our subscribers." > > They're pushing giganews, but I'm guessing google groups will be good > enough. > > Any other suggestions? > > > When AT&T dropped their usenet, I went with: eternal-september.org Text only, no binaries but it's completely free and I haven't had any problems with them. Very fast and reliable. -Will |
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On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:53:02 -0500, Will Bradshaw wrote:
> When AT&T dropped their usenet, I went with: > > eternal-september.org > > Text only, no binaries but it's completely free and I haven't had any > problems with them. Very fast and reliable. Same here, happy september customer ;-) |
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cox dropping support of usenet
> eternal-september.org
> Text only, no binaries but it's completely free and I haven't had any problems with them. Very fast and reliable. I've used alt.games.needforspeed and alt.games.tombraider in the past, but now with official forums, there's virtually no activity. It's mostly rec.autos.simulators now, and the activity here is very low. rFactor lists a bazillion community web sites, so I'm sure I'll find out about rFactor 2 if and when it's soon to be released. There isn't much iRanting going on anymore, and the only significant news from iRacing would be the release of a boxed retail product, which probably won't happen anytime soon either. Then again, usenet made more sense back in the uucp days, and with the advent of bulletin board sites (I still have my compuserve manual), and later internet based forums, it's seems like a relic from the past. Out of curiosity, where would one go to find the oldest archives of usenet posts? Is there the equivalent of a wayback machine for usenet that goes back to the 1980's? |
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cox dropping support of usenet
> Out of curiosity, where would one go to find the oldest archives of
> usenet posts? Is there the equivalent of a wayback machine for usenet > that goes back to the 1980's? It was dejanews, which was later aquired by google, so I assume google has the archives now (dejanews got it's data from some university). |
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cox dropping support of usenet
"rcgldr" > wrote in
: > "Effective June 30, 2010, > Cox Communications will discontinue Usenet service to our > subscribers." > > They're pushing giganews, but I'm guessing google groups will be good > enough. > > Any other suggestions? > The following brief list of free text news servers is in alphabetical order without editorial comment. It's a short list. Check out the servers and decide for yourself which one is best for you. No one knows what works for you better than you do. AIOE http://news.aioe.org/ Albasani http://albasani.net/index.html.en ETT http://news.ett.com.ua/ Eternal September (Formerly Motzarella) http://www.eternal-september.org/ Solani http://news.solani.org/ Tornevall http://news.tornevall.net/ Usenet4all http://www.usenet4all.se (blocks all posts from Google) All servers containing virtually all groups (aside from privately run ones such as microsoft.* and alt.binaries.*). There *are* some very low volume binary groups in some of the above servers that may be in alt.binaries.* as well. |
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cox dropping support of usenet
YMMV, but I still prefer usenet (where I can choose my own reader
software) to those pesky clickety-click web forums that seem to be all the rage with the kids these days... Some forums do support RSS feeds and posting by email, but it's just not the same speed that slrn provides... *sigh* All the best, Uwe |
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cox dropping support of usenet
"Uwe" > wrote in message ... > YMMV, but I still prefer usenet (where I can choose my own reader > software) to those pesky clickety-click web forums that seem to be all > the rage with the kids these days... > > Some forums do support RSS feeds and posting by email, but it's just > not the same speed that slrn provides... *sigh* > > All the best, Uwe I agree, I much prefer usenet myself but unfortunately it seems to be going the way of the tiki bird. I even subscribe to a usenet reader service so I can have access to all the newsgroups I like to read and participate in, as Comcast dropped them some time ago. So many groups that used to be so active " back in the day " see hardly any activity any more on a daily basis. Really sad., but that seems to be the trend now. -- Don |
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