"Andy Pastuszak" wrote in message
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Reel McKoi wrote:

"Andy Pastuszak" wrote in message
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Yeah, I can't even see anything I posted in the last week from Google
Groups. The last post they have is from 2005.

With Time-Warner taking away UseNet completely, a lot of people will
only have Usenet access through Google Groups.

Andy

Not so. I access Usenet through several FREE news-servers such as aioe,
motzerella, greatnowhere and others. I hate Google Groups.

I understand there are free Usenet servers available but there are two
issues:

1. The average Time-Warner customer has to actually KNOW about Usenet in
order to try and find a free news server. Usenet is kind of lost and
forgotten these days. And now that Usenet is gone from Time-Warner, I
doubt there will be any reference to the existence of Usenet on
Time-Warner's support site.

2. Free Usenet services still require an NNTP client, which can't get to
the server at work when you're behind a firewall and proxy.

I used to use a website that would give a forum web interface to Novell's
Usenet newsgroups. If I could find that software, I'd set it up for the
rec.aquaria hierarchy. I really don't want to see newsgroups die.

Andy
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Usenet wont die because of Time-Warner. Many other ISPs still carry Usenet
and many people access it with either free or pay news servers.