On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 01:43:40PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Alexander Huemer dixit: > >After reading [1] I really wonder why MLs became so popular. I believe > >the problem of the usenet are the binary usegroups which became popular > >for warez and are now reduced to that in the view of the general public. > > And ISPs, which is the reason for ②.
Indeed, ISPs don't seem interested in providing NNTP these days. aioe.org seems like a good alternative for small-scale use.