Re: OT: Newsgroup servers

On 1/9/21 9:27 AM, David E. Ross wrote:
> On 1/9/2021 12:33 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
>> On 1/9/21 12:57 AM, Jeff Layman wrote:
>>> On 09/01/2021 06:15, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>> On 01/08/2021 08:41 PM, Daniel wrote:
>>>>> David E. Ross wrote on 09/01/21 14:15:
>>>>>> On 1/8/2021 3:25 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
>>>>>>> Looking for recommendations and/or suggestions for a newsgroup server,
>>>>>>> free or paid.  The free one I I've been using has gone away.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My primary NNTP service is the free AIOE.  The Web site is
>>>>>> <https://news.aioe.org/>.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My backup is the free Eternal September.  Its Web site is
>>>>>> <http://www.eternal-september.org/>.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you want a service that retains old messages for a long time or has
>>>>>> obscure newsgroups, consider Giganews.  Its Web site is
>>>>>> <https://www.giganews.com/>.  Subscriptions currently cost  $8.33 per
>>>>>> month.  This service hosts Mozilla's newsgroups separately from its
>>>>>> general list of newsgroups.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'll second the vote for E-S.
>>>>
>>>> I'll third it.
>>>
>>> Yep. Ray does a good job of keeping it going.
>>>
>>> For a backup I use Solani since Albasani went.
>>
>> Albasani is the one I was using.
>>
>>
> 
> Albasani suffered a hard drive crash that wiped out the server.  Roman
> Racine, who maintained that service, said he might replace the server.
> Since it was a free service, however, he had more important things to do.

Someone, maybe you, posted about the HD failure "way back wheh".  And 
since it was free, I don't blame him.  I'm buried in "stuff" also, so 
just not been in a hurry to get back up and running.


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