Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Traffic down? Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:49:58 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4e2b782e$0$313$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="FnfOftTxQkclA6qw0je3Jg"; logging-data="5539"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18nyS/XCIWl3IlJGuJAuY7m" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <4e2b782e$0$313$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:hxzqWaGPp2IWBe/kzCx1Vtzb6BA= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6496 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