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Old March 27th 12, 10:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:15:00 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:

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Jeff T typed:
Are there any good, free newsservers?


I like "news.eternal-september.org" myself. If you want binary
newsgroups, then that would be a bad one.


I've tried eternal-september several times. They were originally
mozerella, and worked, but were down quite often, and I had to sign up
all over again when they lost the system records. When they switched to


I've been with them since they were mozzarella, and have had very little
in the way of problems.
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The newsgroups are nearly dead anyhow. Usenet has always been 80% of my


The death of usenet has been being announced for years. Certainly, the
majority of its users are probably not of the Facebook generation, but I
think it's some way from being dead yet!
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My guess is that all the former usenet users have either partially
abandoned the internet like myself, completely left it, or have gone to


Nope - I take several very active newsgroups. (That's active with either
useful or interesting content, I mean, not junk.)
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