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

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Simon D. Williams <email@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
dempson@actrix.gen.nz