On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:04:38 -0000, Bob Hobden wrote:

"Dan Espen" wrote

"Bob Hobden" writes:

My ISP (BT) is to give up giving us access to Usenet newsgroups from
3rd December so for now it looks like I won't be around here much
longer unless I find a cheap alternative binaries news server.

You are in luck, eternal-september carries _this_ binary news group.
(Not those other binary groups.)

Sign of the times?

You are late to the party, other ISPs did that years ago.


But I thought eternal-september didn't do binaries at all? Or is this Ng an
exception?

E-S has a bunch of newsgroups that don't work or partially work (like the
outdated Microsoft hierarchy and a bunch of non-functioning RSS-based
groups).

E-S also have a bizarre spam filter which breaks threads Of the binary
groups that *do* work, you can't post to them or have to knock off
nonexistent or excessive groups from the original thread, causing all the
posts to split in different directions.

E-S also has a secondary spam filter which refuses posts if you reply to a
thread that includes a certain blacklist of groups. It then gives an error
"Too many newsgroups (meow)" (???) They told me once it has something to do
with a flame war from the mid 90s.

I got tired of this nonsense and signed up with Supernews last month
($11.95/mo). While 3-yr-old binaries are often broken, for everything
else, so far so good.

My ISP still has free newsgroups, but they bend over to random "harassment"
complaints from people in the text groups, so I seek newsgroup access
somewhere else.

E-S has always been tolerant of political speech (when the thread works)
and so far no problems with Supernews.

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b.f.