On 09/12/2012 05:50 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In
<CAArMM9Rbbo+aF=OE=UpRCPa4=g5wd_mmjhuagmomu5eeeir...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 09/11/2012
at 08:54 PM, Tony Harminc <[email protected]> said:
But when was the last time anyone saw an actual Usenet/UUCP server?
When was the last time someone mentioned UUCP on IBM-MAIN? A more
relevant question is "When was the last time anyone saw an actual NNTP
server?", and the answer is "today". There may not be as many as there
used to be, but there are still a lot.
Sure, Google groups seems to have one,
FSVO.
And I just saw one for-fee news-server advertisement yesterday that made
a point of claiming they didn't maintain logs of user activity. If that
is true and typical of commercial sites, that would suggest they
couldn't supply any data on ibm-main newsgroup access even if they were
willing to do so.
Most ISP's used to provide free news servers, but no longer. As
recently as a year ago it wasn't that difficult to find some free
news-servers that didn't require any registration or logon; but a recent
brief search without finding any suggests they are now much harder to
find, if any still exist. I preferred news server access for ibm-main,
but learned I could survive without it when my ISP stopped providing
free service a number of years ago.
--
Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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