On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Mike Lake wrote:
> The news server here at the Uni of Technology, Sydney no longer seems to be
> operational (news.uts.edu.au). I have not been able to find out why or who
> looks after it so I am looking for another source of news for comp.text.tex
> (no not alt.bins). I tried news.unsw.edu.au and it told me that it wasn't
> going to talk to me but at least it said hello unlike the one here at uts.
> The news server at Syd Uni only has one newsgroup for societies. Google
> shows lots of servers but I wanted to use one in Australia and pref from a
> uni as uts would pay less. Anyone use one regularly and know one that is up?
> I dont want a web based one, they suck :-)
Hi Mike,
All computers on the Australian Academic and Research Network (which
includes UTS) can use the Optus news server at news.optus.net.au. This
has about 35,000 newgroups. Let me know if comp.text.tex is not amoung
them.
I'm not in a position to know if UTS have removed their USENET service or
if it is simply down. Most university IT sections regard USENET as poor
value as the volume is massive and the readership low. [1]
Arranging direct access to the Optus news server from machines on AARNet
seemed a nice way of still giving people access to USENET without
downloading unread gigabytes per day. We will pay a higher price for the
read megabytes, but will still be substantially financially better off.
But as I wrote above, I'm not sure that the USENET service at UTS has been
deliberately removed or simply has operatonal problems. Either way,
you're welcome and encouraged to use news.optus.net.au.
Regards,
Glen
[1] Normal ISPs love USENET. They pay to get the traffic in once, and
then get revenue sending out multiple copies. The more images
the better :-) Because AARNet is owned solely by its users we
are much more concerned about the value-for-money of those
gigabytes.
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