Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: [OT] seeking news server recommendations Date: 31 Jul 2026 18:54:30 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net eM2KlmofjNazouvDgBBu2weNR4aRrRLAN4DO22JmIwiaBY1VnI Cancel-Lock: sha1:0w6sBAthV1VeAbsGYGu44yNrkiM= sha256:AOisEPRmuLFFxstRWCJDDt5eTMLA45bhaFcibA/DAcE= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89360 On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:32:16 +0100, Andy Burns wrote: > rbowman wrote: > >> I've used individual since my at-the-time ISP dropped usenet. I don't >> remember exactly when but it was still free. 10 Euros was still a >> bargain. > > I wonder if NIN have tried to find a buyer? https://individual.net/ "Farewell, Usenet!! The era of Usenet is over" Hardly a good sales pitch. A sale might be complicated since it is run by FU Berlin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_University_of_Berlin I don't know how, or why, eternal-september.org is funded. Others like newshosting start at $10/mo but also offer other services. People love to hate Reddit but the truth is r/linuxmint has much more traffic that alt.os.linux.mint. The focused subreddits are not bad. General ones like the local one tend to be trash.