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1. About copyright, to the best of my knowledge, Ecco qualifies as
"abandonware." The copyright holder is out-of-business. Even more
significant, I believe that enough time has passed that the copyright
has expired: Ecco is now in the public domain.
2. It's possible that we might be best served by moving to Usenet!
Usenet is one of the two original Internet services, along with email.
They both pre-date the World Wide Web.
Google actually bamboozled everyone by creating Google Groups, just
buying and renaming GeoCities. GeoCities was an archive of existing
Usenet posts, as well as offering current content access. Thus, Google
Groups is simply Google's proprietary, advertising-driven graphic front
end for an original essential service: "Usenet," has also been known as
"News Groups."
Most people think that Google Groups is a wholly-owned Google "thing,"
especially since most internet providers dropped direct Newsgroup access
(they never liked having to pay for it). It is not, and Usenet is very
much still with us. In fact, there are on-line paid Usenet services, and
we can subscribe to them, personally.
Here's general info:
https://www.newsgroupservers.net/
This is one source:
https://www.supernews.com/super-special/#utm_medium=(none)&utm_source=(direct)&utm_campaign=(direct)&utm_term=affiliate/ngsupernews
Here are more:
https://www.newsgroupservers.net/best-providers/cheap-unlimited-usenet-plans/
I don't think it's cheap, but It may be worth it!
Richard
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<p>1. About copyright, to the best of my knowledge, Ecco qualifies as=
<br>
"abandonware." The copyright holder is out-of-business. Even more=
<br>
significant, I believe that enough time has passed that the copyright <br>
has expired: Ecco is now in the public domain.<br>
<br>
2. It's possible that we might be best served by moving to Usenet!=C2=
=A0 <br>
Usenet is one of the two original Internet services, along with email. <br>
They both pre-date the World Wide Web.<br>
<br>
Google actually bamboozled everyone by creating Google Groups, just <br>
buying and renaming GeoCities. GeoCities was an archive of existing <br>
Usenet posts, as well as offering current content access. Thus, Google <br>
Groups is simply Google's proprietary, advertising-driven graphic front=
<br>
end for an original essential service: "Usenet," has also been kn=
own as <br>
"News Groups."<br>
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Most people think that Google Groups is a wholly-owned Google "thing,&=
quot; <br>
especially since most internet providers dropped direct Newsgroup access <b=
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(they never liked having to pay for it). It is not, and Usenet is very <br>
much still with us. In fact, there are on-line paid Usenet services, and <b=
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we can subscribe to them, personally.<br>
<br>
Here's general info:<br>
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https://www.newsgroupservers.net/<br>
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https://www.supernews.com/super-special/#utm_medium=3D(none)&utm_source=
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Here are more:<br>
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https://www.newsgroupservers.net/best-providers/cheap-unlimited-usenet-plan=
s/<br>
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I don't think it's cheap, but It may be worth it!<br>
<br>
Richard<br>
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