Re: usenet access and the future of comp.sys.apple2

[Jerry <a2tinkerer@gmail.com>]

On Oct 26, 2:38 am, demp...@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> Simon D. Williams <em...@ld8.org> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 26, 12:10 am, Jerry <a2tinke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > My ISP (Telus), one of the biggest in Canada, recently turned off
> > > their USENET feed to the rest of the net...
>
> > > So perhaps it's just my problem...
>
> > Not just your problem... I also got left out in the cold by Telus and
> > so far haven't found a workable (ie: free) alternative.
>
> I'm using Eternal September, as my ISP's news server was getting
> unreliable (due to an upstream peer that seemed to be losing articles
> from certain servers).
>
> They are free, but don't carry binary groups (which I care nothing about
> nowadays anyway). Standard NNTP, seems to be pretty reliable from my
> last few months - just one outage of a few hours. There is a limit on
> the number of connections per day, but it is high enough not to be a
> limit for me (I'm using an offline newsreader anyway).
>
> http://www.eternal-september.org
>
> --
> David Empson
> demp...@actrix.gen.nz

Thanks David, and the others who've chimed in on this thread!

I'll check out eternal-september and bbs-scene.org.

I'm glad that the consensus remains to keep with usenet.  I agree
with the others that it is still the best platform for the types of
discussion we have here.  I've been using it since the 1980s as
well, and will miss it when it's gone.  FWIW, I like to use the gnus
newsreader within emacs.