«

On 6/22/2011 6:56 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 06/22/2011 03:32 PM, Wojtek wrote:
>> I know of at least two ISPs which are not carrying any newsgroups at all
>> anymore, they have discontinued NNTP.
>>
>> So now I am using a newsgroup service which I must pay for. Some people
>> might not want to pay...
>
> I've had to pay for several years now. My ISP used to provide it free
> but turns out, only me and one other guys used it. He's a small town
> operation though.

That is a world wide phenomenon.

But there are several free NNTP servers if one does
not want to pay.

Arne

On 6/21/2011 2:56 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> I'm recently back to clj*.
> I took several months break from it.
> The traffic seems down.
> Is this a summertime lull?

I doubt it.

But activity fluctuate a bit over time (the generel
trend for usenet is ofcourse down).

Arne

On 7/23/2011 6:40 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 6:56 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> On 06/22/2011 03:32 PM, Wojtek wrote:
>>> I know of at least two ISPs which are not carrying any newsgroups at all
>>> anymore, they have discontinued NNTP.
>>>
>>> So now I am using a newsgroup service which I must pay for. Some people
>>> might not want to pay...
>>
>> I've had to pay for several years now. My ISP used to provide it free
>> but turns out, only me and one other guys used it. He's a small town
>> operation though.
>
> That is a world wide phenomenon.
>
> But there are several free NNTP servers if one does
> not want to pay.
>
> Arne

Yes, somebody earlier mentioned Eternal September and that's what I'm
using now. It's fine, I don't need to be looking at binaries
(anymore)((or at all probably)) .

--

Knute Johnson

In article <4e2b78a8$0$313$>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <> wrote:
>On 6/21/2011 2:56 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>> I'm recently back to clj*.
>> I took several months break from it.
>> The traffic seems down.
>> Is this a summertime lull?
>
>I doubt it.
>
>But activity fluctuate a bit over time (the generel
>trend for usenet is ofcourse down).
>
>Arne
>
Even when there was a lot of usenet traffic, I thought it trended down in the
summer. Fewer college students.

Eric