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Model Forum / General / Models / June 2008Help us save usenet news for Time-Warner customers
Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for the TW president: Barbara Burroughs phone 203-351-2281 email: barbara.burroughs@twcable.com ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** on 6/16/2008 7:25 PM Usenet user said the following: > Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** > Get a paid newsserver. Longer retention, better binaries. I have TW's Roadrunner and pay for Supernews. Less than $6 a month  SignatureBill In Hamptonburgh, NY To email, remove the double zeroes after @ > on 6/16/2008 7:25 PM Usenet user said the following: >> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Get a paid newsserver. Longer retention, better binaries. I have TW's > Roadrunner and pay for Supernews. Less than $6 a month Use motzarella.org. It is the best! For text groups only. And if you have a fixed IP, help by making a small mirror for the groups you like plus a few more. SignatureGernot Hassenpflug BUT...If *all* of the major ISPs drop USENET, how do you think stuff will get propagated to the pay news providers? John > on 6/16/2008 7:25 PM Usenet user said the following: >> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Get a paid newsserver. Longer retention, better binaries. I have TW's > Roadrunner and pay for Supernews. Less than $6 a month John O. Kopf said the following on 19/06/2008 17:37: > BUT...If *all* of the major ISPs drop USENET, how do you think stuff > will get propagated to the pay news providers? Maybe we could get the colleges and universities to use some spare space on their servers. Then, the academics might be able to share their work... Now where the hell did I get that idea from? Maybe I could get the rights to that idea! ;-) > BUT...If *all* of the major ISPs drop USENET, how do you think stuff > will get propagated to the pay news providers? Via the paid news providers' servers. ISPs are only there to provide access to the internet to people. There is nothing stopping anyone from running news software on bought server space on their own sites. ISPs are free to do what they like in a supply-demand economy. If enough people (not per ISP) want usenet then pay news providers will have a field day. In particular, those that do only text can afford to have services at very low base costs. SignatureGernot Hassenpflug > BUT...If *all* of the major ISPs drop USENET, how do you think stuff > will get propagated to the pay news providers? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Get a paid newsserver. Longer retention, better binaries. I have TW's > > Roadrunner and pay for Supernews. Less than $6 a month Most of the folks who provide the stuff I read do it gratis. And the servers for the groups I use are also provided gratis as part of some institutional network. I figure I pay enough for my DSL line without paying more specifically for Usenet. So, I use the Google Group interface. Not the best, but it works and is cheap. My ISP provides Usenet but does not support it. I find most of the problems I have using Usenet servers through my ISP also now occur on GG, so I didn't solve anything. But at least I know that when my ISP ever does completely pull the plug, I can keep on using Usenet as long as I have web access. I read this through Google Groups...for FREE! Though this group has been around since before the internet as we now know it, it will eventually reach the end of its useful life. Given this hobby is so visual by nature, having photographic content is a feature that other modeling websites offer. Hence their popularity and success. This text only bulletin board format is too susceptible to spam. |
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