XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien
From: dthierbach@usenet.arcornews.de
Steuard Jensen wrote:
> But that was using my Usenet access at work. This thread is the first
> new message to show up on my home newsfeed (through Verizon DSL) since
> June 1, and the one before that was on May 15 (both posts were sent by
> Sean_Q_). Verizon has not supported the alt.* hierarchy for ages.
Looks like it is high time to change your Usenet provider :-)
> Worse, though, is the message that just showed up here at home this
> afternoon: "AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down". On or around
> July 15, they're pulling the plug; they kindly point out that at that
> point, we can obtain access via third-party vendors.
Actually, I've never accessed the Usenet through my ISP server's.
> Even if the most dedicated of us find and pay for Usenet access,
There's plenty of newsservers you don't have to pay for, at least here
in Europe. Even better, there's some organizations who do Usenet
peering with servers operated by private persons; so if you or anyone
else has got an (even somewhat older) box you can leave on 24/7 with a
flatrate internet connection, you can setup your own server. Only cost
is electricity, a bit of time for administration, and bandwidth isn't that
substantial if you don't carry the binary groups.
All doable. There's no need to depend on some big central organizations
like AT&T or Verizon, especially not with NNTP.
> So I'm eager to hear ideas for keeping our communities
> alive, whether that's via NNTP, Google Groups, shifting en masse to a
> new web forum, shifting en masse to an existing web forum, or whatever
> else.
No, please, no web forum.
- Dirk
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