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In message <qar8in$7b6$1@dont-email.me>, Brian Gaff 
<briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
>Yes I was wondering if the albersani and eternal September web sites still

I currently get this via eternal-september, though I think PlusNet (or 
what they pretend is PlusNet) still carry it. I haven't seen on-topic 
posts - e. g. about screenreaders, speech, Braille ... - for many years, 
though - in fact I'm not sure if I ever saw any; I took the 'group as 
I'm interested in computing for the blind (initially because I have a 
couple of friends [did you ever take the tape magazine "computer 
talk"?], but now generally.)

>exist as I could not find either  the other day, which means most of the
>providers of these groups are concentrating on binary groups which quite
>rightly you pay for, and most seem to also be offering vpn access and
>annonymising etc. Reminds me very much of the old days where we had a server
>in Norway which posted  and did not  keep real ip addresses it got closed
>down due to some very naughty behaviour by users. Criminals mostly.

I didn't know about a Norway one; I remember anon.penet.fi, which I 
assumed was in Finland.

> There seems to be no way one can actually chat with other people about
>stuff you might not want your granny to know about you even if its perfectly
>legal!

As in society in general!
>
>Brian
>
John
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

A biochemist walks into a student bar and says to the barman: "I'd like a pint
of adenosine triphosphate, please." "Certainly," says the barman, "that'll be
ATP." (Quoted in) The Independent, 2013-7-13

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Is this group still working? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-05-06 11:30 +0100
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  Re: Is this group still working? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2019-05-06 14:47 +0100
    Re: Is this group still working? "Brian Gaff" <briang1@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2019-05-07 07:28 +0100
      Re: Is this group still working? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> - 2019-05-07 13:13 +0100
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  Re: Is this group still working? Seth Hurst <hurstseth405@gmail.com> - 2019-08-24 21:48 -0400
    Re: Is this group still working? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-08-27 07:56 +0100
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