[u-u] Anyone still doing Usenet?

[Evan Leibovitch]

Sorry, just was this.
Greetings from Geneva.

I would argue that Usenet is not only not dead, it's making a comeback of
sorts
<http://lifehacker.com/5601586/how-to-get-started-with-usenet-in-three-simple-steps>,
though a quiet one.

D'Arcy, of course it's your call whether keeping it makes business sense.
But there is a cottage industry of NNTP servers that have retail prices
lower than your wholesale cost. Here's one of the most popular examples:
http://www.astraweb.com/

HTH.


On 8 July 2015 at 18:27, Alex Lebedev <a.lebede at gmail.com> wrote:

> I occasionally read fido7 groups.
> Some of them can be found in Google groups
> On Jul 8, 2015 12:09 PM, "Brian O'Reilly" <fade at deepsky.com> wrote:
>
>> On 15-04-16 11:59 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
>> > I have one client reading Usenet news and it is costing me $50/month
>> > to provide a commercial connection.  I wonder if anyone is still
>> > running a news server that might be willing to let one more person
>> > connect.
>> >
>> > Cheers.
>>
>> The only people I know doing news are people running commercial nntp
>> services. For my own froup requirements, I have been using Eternal
>> September (http://www.eternal-september.org) for some time, which has
>> been fine for my largely lurking use patern, but it doesn't carry any of
>> the binary groups, so if that's your bag then you'll need to point the
>> client to one of the specialist services.
>>
>>
>> ..B
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