On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:43:58 +0000, Monte Milanuk wrote: >> Decent NNTP access is harder to find. Not impossible, but no longer a >> 'free' part of most standard ISP access any more. > > I disagree. Since I've been on the Internet, over a decade now (what can > I say? I was a slow starter), I've had three ISPs, and all three of them > have provided NNTP access as a standard. One of them tried to cancel > access to *binary* newsgroups, but they reversed that after customer > complaints. > > I don't know what rubbish ISPs you're dealing with, or what country > you're in, but not all ISPs in all countries are rubbish.
The US high-speed consumer ISP market isn't very competitive and some players in the oligopoly are indeed rubbish WRT newsgroups. Case in point: http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/ </americentrism> Cheers, Chris -- Not that I care. Mailinglists seem about as good anyway. http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
