Re: Free Newsgroup readers?

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <YY0uc.29813$zO3.10324@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net> Terry Olsen 
wrote:
> does anyone know of any free newsgroup servers that allow posting?  I
> switched ISP's and my new one doesn't have a newsgroup server.  They 
> told me that "all ISP's are fazing out the newsgroups because they are 
> used for pirating".

Ha! By that same reasoning they shouldn't be providing access to the 
Internet at all.

The real reason so many ISPs regards news servers as more trouble than 
they're worth is that only a small percentage of their customers use 
them, and of the ones that do most of the traffic is from the binary 
groups, which mostly consists of porn, pirated software and pirated 
movies. And probably pirated porn movies. Which is not to say that there 
aren't plenty of newsgroups that carry other stuff, just that it makes 
up a fairly small percentage of the traffic.

p.s. I can second Greg Buchner's recommendation for <http://news.
individual.net/>, as I use them myself.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/
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