Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help?

  To: badgolferman
  Re: Re: Can't post to rocksolid NNTP - where to get help?
  By: badgolferman to alt.free.newsservers,news.admin.peering,news.software.nntp,alt.bbs on Tue Mar 07 2023 04:57 pm

 >> volume of bandwidth thus network, hardware, and administrative costs
 >> of hosting news servers significantly went up and fast and the child
 >> porn issue was merely a convenient excuse of ISPs to shut them down
 >> and save money.

Back in the early 2000s, my ISP switched from running their own news servers to contracting to a third party for news services. They then adopted the "if we make our news service bad enough, maybe they'll go away...". I'd call about a credit after their 3rd party news server was unavailable for a week, and was told that News was a "free service" offered to their customers and no refunds would be available.

Shortly after that, they just dropped news service. I don't know if this was after Google integrated usenet into Google Groups, but I bet that was the last straw for any ISP that hosted news.
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