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Re: Traffic down?

From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Traffic down?
Date	2011-06-23 09:03 -0700
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:32:00 -0700, Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> wrote:

>Peter Duniho wrote :

[snip]

>> I haven't looked to see if there's been a similar decline across other 
>> non-tech newsgroups.  It's entirely possible that similar factors are causing 
>> a decline across the board.

>I know of at least two ISPs which are not carrying any newsgroups at 
>all anymore, they have discontinued NNTP.

     Mine has as well.  Ten years ago, the local ISP where I was
living had only two of us who used USENET.

>So now I am using a newsgroup service which I must pay for. Some people 
>might not want to pay...

     I now use eternal-september.org.  It is free.  It does not have
binaries, but since I do not need them, ES works great for me.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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