Re: Nice to be back on Usenet

[This followup was posted to alt.amateur-comp and a copy 
was sent to the cited author.]

In article <[email protected]
september.org>, usenet202101@magic-
cookie.co.ukNOSPAMPLEASE says...
> 
> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
> says...
> > 
> > Does anyone know of any Freenets that still exist or are in use?
> > 
> > The Seattle Community Network still seems to exist:
> > http://www.scn.org/
> > 
> > 
> > Chebucto Community Net in Halifax still exists:
> > https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/
> 
> Mention of Chebucto brought back memories of Norman De Forest, who was a 
> tireless volunteer on the Chebucto userhelp team as well as a generous 
> and thoughtful contributor to Usenet. Google Groups is flaky these days, 
> but if the link works, this thread contains a wonderful tribute:
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.virus/c/abDxPPICLtI/m/l7dfyg3Nly4J
> 
> As for other freenets, NCF in Ottawa certainly seems to be going strong 
> after 29 years: https://www.ncf.ca/


NCF Just celebrated its 29th Anniversary on September 29. 
It was registered on September 29, 1992. It recently 
posted a "Happy Birthday to us" on twitter @ncfottawa
At their web site there was an interesting publication of 
how they got started. 
http://web.ncf.ca/fn352/InTheirOwnWords.pdf

I wonder if anyone knows if any of the existing FreeNets 
offer Usenet?

BTW the Cleveland FreeNet ended on Oct 1 1999. That was a 
big loss as it was an important pioneer of making the Net 
in general and especially Usenet available in a way that 
was accessible. 

Ronda