Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:33:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> Cc: Sabine Baer <baerks@t-online.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Vim mailing list Message-ID: <4A8BAAE7.40207@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4A8BA0FC.8010904@ibctech.ca> References: <4A8B82FD.30305@ibctech.ca> <4ad871310908182259j202b1a0au82e15c7259a583c1@mail.gmail.com> <20090819063126.GE81858@amd.catfish.ddns.org> <4A8BA0FC.8010904@ibctech.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Steve Bertrand wrote: > Am I missing something about posting to newsgroups? My understanding is > ISP's don't utilize them anymore because of the ominous unavoidable > illegal behaviour. No -- it's not legal problems, which offer no worse consequences than for defamatory postings on blogs or forums, but fashion. A lot of people seem to prefer to use web forums rather than newsgroups. I can't see any particular advantage myself, and I've always preferred the e-mail/netnews style myself. (Of course, for old farts like myself, this is a welcome return to the blessed golden age of usenet circa 1993 before the ravening hordes of AOL and it's successors descended upon it...) Because of that perceived shift, and because running a full-feed NNTP server is no trivial undertaking, many of the cheaper sort of ISPs have stopped providing NNTP as a standard part of their offerring. > If this is the case, ideas on a (legal) workaround so posting to > text-only newsgroups would be great. Now that this has been brought up, > I'd be interested if I could barder with another small ISP for this > functionality. (post on -isp). There are a number of pay-for net news services available. The ones I know of are based in Europe: http://www.eternal-september.org/ http://news.individual.net/ See also: http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Public_News_Servers/ Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. Flat 3 7 Priory Courtyard PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW, UK [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkqLquwACgkQ3jDkPpsZ+VYoTwCeIUdxOOSpxvU9rU8sJi6iPVHz q/UAoKp1HRmqfS7cpQIdZ4RRk229m3to =bwA/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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