In article <jqfjjc$f5s$1...@dont-email.me>, Colin Higwell <colinh@somewhere.invalid> wrote: >On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:38:55 -0700, Jon Clements wrote: > >> >> Is there a server out there where I can get my news groups? I use to be >> with an ISP that hosted usenet servers, but alas, it's no longer >> around... >> >I use Albasani.net (free and very reliable), as well as gmane.org. > >Google Groups is an abomination IMHO, and I find it much easier to read >mailing lists via a newsreader. I highly recommend Pan, by the way.
I still use UUCP. This machine is a UUCP node (spenarnc.xs4all.nl). I fetch my mail and news using a UUCP-feed (login over the internet with ADSL to a machine of xs4all). From that moment on it is a newsserver. I can access it from other machines on my network or I could make it available to friends over the internet. (Not that I plan to do that.) I can use any newsreader, and it is fast/instantaneous. Set this stuff up in 1994 with Coherent. Upgraded to Linux, and upgraded the hardware a couple of times. Running on a Pentium 120 Mhz now. I take it for granted but last time I heard, UUCP was down to less than a dozen users with this service. Groetjes Albert > -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
