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Re: Traffic down?

From	Knute Johnson <september@knutejohnson.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Traffic down?
Date	2011-07-23 20:49 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 7/23/2011 6:40 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 6:56 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> On 06/22/2011 03:32 PM, Wojtek wrote:
>>> I know of at least two ISPs which are not carrying any newsgroups at all
>>> anymore, they have discontinued NNTP.
>>>
>>> So now I am using a newsgroup service which I must pay for. Some people
>>> might not want to pay...
>>
>> I've had to pay for several years now. My ISP used to provide it free
>> but turns out, only me and one other guys used it. He's a small town
>> operation though.
>
> That is a world wide phenomenon.
>
> But there are several free NNTP servers if one does
> not want to pay.
>
> Arne

Yes, somebody earlier mentioned Eternal September and that's what I'm 
using now.  It's fine, I don't need to be looking at binaries 
(anymore)((or at all probably)) :-).

--

Knute Johnson

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