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   Miles Bader to Steuard Jensen   
   Re: Book newsgroups dying?   
   01 Jul 09 09:51:12   
   
   XPost: alt.books.beatgeneration, alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books   
   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: miles@gnu.org   
      
   Steuard Jensen  writes:   
   > Anyone else out there have good suggestions for free news servers that   
   > carry these groups?  (I'd say "free or inexpensive", but I suspect   
   > that when trying to attract newcomers to the groups it will be a lot   
   > easier to get them to try out "free".)   
      
   FWIW, I switched to news.individual.net -- 10 euro/year -- when my ISP   
   dropped its netnews service.   
      
   It has the advantage of reliability, wide coverage, and pretty much zero spam.   
      
   I first tried some of the more widely known free servers, but never   
   found anything very reliable.   
      
   -Miles   
      
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