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Usenet used to be ubiquitous, especially when most of us were using dialup ISPs. Now we're all on broadband and our ISPs (Comcast et al.) don't carry it. There'

by antidoh 14y ago

Usenet used to be ubiquitous, especially when most of us were using dialup ISPs. Now we're all on broadband and our ISPs (Comcast et al.) don't carry it. There's Google groups, sort of ... Does anyone subscribe to a for-pay usenet provider that they like? Does it offer old school text-based client access?

meaty 14y ago
Yes I use xsusenet (http://xsusenet.com http://xsusenet.com) and my own private fork of slrn (http://slrn.sourceforge.net/ http://slrn.sourceforge.net/). It's free but they have a 25Gb cap which is fine if you're not leeching binaries (I'm not!).