Re: Optus' news-server

Plenty of stuff on Usenet text, and binaries are very popular thanks to
their near untraceable nature compared to peer2peer and their high speeds.

Many ISPs offer a free text service, although it's probably possible to get
it for free from somewhere. Internode just mirrored Giganews and Astraweb
for binaries, giving a $30-40/value a month addon free to all customers.

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Martin Visser <[email protected]>
wrote:

> You mean people still use USENET? ;-)
>
> Some years ago it seemed to have dissapeared into complete agony - and
> at least to me appear to be some sort post-apocalyptic no go zone. The
> only USENET I look at is when using Google Groups archives pre 2000
> (and reminiscing about the good old days)
>
> I imagine it's near absolute entropy has probably lead to sysadmin apathy.
>
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Paul Dwerryhouse
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >  I recall that there were a number of people at LCA this year who worked
> >  at Optus, so I figure that perhaps they might be reading slug-chat.
> >
> >  Optus' news-server has not been receiving any new posts since sometime
> >  on Monday or Tuesday, and the natives are getting restless, after being
> >  given the run-around by the helldesk:
> >
> >  http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=958464
> >
> >  Anyone know when it's likely to be fixed (and, as a matter of interest,
> >  being someone who was once a sysadmin for a similar sized ISP, what's
> >  gone wrong)?
> >
> >  Cheers,
> >
> >  Paul
> >
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