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Posted by Andy Pastuszak on July 12, 2008, 8:56 am
Please log in for more thread options Reel McKoi wrote:
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>> Yeah, I can't even see anything I posted in the last week from Google
>> Groups. The last post they have is from 2005.
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>> With Time-Warner taking away UseNet completely, a lot of people will
>> only have Usenet access through Google Groups.
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>> Andy
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> Not so. I access Usenet through several FREE news-servers such as aioe,
> motzerella, greatnowhere and others. I hate Google Groups.
I understand there are free Usenet servers available but there are two
issues:
1. The average Time-Warner customer has to actually KNOW about Usenet in
order to try and find a free news server. Usenet is kind of lost and
forgotten these days. And now that Usenet is gone from Time-Warner, I
doubt there will be any reference to the existence of Usenet on
Time-Warner's support site.
2. Free Usenet services still require an NNTP client, which can't get to
the server at work when you're behind a firewall and proxy.
I used to use a website that would give a forum web interface to
Novell's Usenet newsgroups. If I could find that software, I'd set it
up for the rec.aquaria hierarchy. I really don't want to see newsgroups
die.
Andy
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> but it seems Google Groups neither gets updates, nor lets you post to
> rec.aquaria.freshwater. Should I stop using this group and just stick
> to rec.aquarua.freshwater.misc?