From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Ian   
   Goddard  writes:   
   >On 04/01/19 17:33, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   >> In message , Evertjan.   
   >> writes:   
   >>> Steve Hayes  wrote on 04 Jan 2019 in   
   >>> soc.genealogy.britain:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:05:00 +0100, Athel Cornish-Bowden   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> You don't need Google Groups for that. Anyone who knows about Usenet   
   >>  (As someone else said, that's now a vanishingly tiny proportion of   
   >>those  who use the internet - especially of those who use the web.)   
   >   
   >It's 100% of us.   
   >   
   Obviously. (Though some here are not using conventional news clients -   
   and in a _few_ cases, successfully [though not in most].)   
   >   
   >>  I haven't seen the expression 'a "full" Internet service' for years   
   >>- if  ever (-:. These days, they tend to just call it "broadband".   
   >>Some don't  even offer email! (Some - I think PlusNet is one - have   
   >>email available  but only if [new customers this is] you ask for it   
   >>when signing up.)   
   >   
   >PlusNet offer Usenet which is what I'm using now.   
      
   I too am with them. Though they don't allow use of "their" usenet server   
   - even with authentication - when connected via a non-PlusNet   
   connection; I'm staying with a (TalkTalk) friend now, for example. (And   
   thus using E-S.)   
   >   
   >I gave up using an ISP email address years ago.  I used to have an   
   >excellent ISP who were taken over and taken over again going steadily   
      
   I suspect it happens to all (that are any good in the first place); I   
   was with Demon. PlusNet still are fair, but way down on what they were.   
      
   >downhill most of the time and they then ended up with TalkTalk who   
   >started restricting UseNet speeds to around zero at the times I wanted   
   >to use it.  I lost my old ISP email address when I jumped ship.   
   >   
   >One has far more control with a personal domain (Hotmail which I use   
   >here is just a spam bin).  With my own domain I could change ISP again   
   >when the next one, Be, got sold to Sky.   
   >   
   >If the personal domain provider doesn't perform it's possible to move   
   >the domain to someone else who does which is how I ended up using   
   >Mythic Beasts (Hi, Richard).   
      
   And I'm with TSOhost.   
   >   
   >Ian   
   John   
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