[TAG] Usenet (was Re: [Fwd:] In RI federal court -- Harvard vs. the RIAA)

[Neil Youngman]

On Sunday 28 December 2008 05:47:25 Ben Okopnik wrote:
> This was always one of the classic problems with USENET, BTW: I recall
> the constant hunt for free NNTP servers, and people dropping out of
> sight for random stretches because they couldn't find one. A free server
> that carried all the popular NGs, had high post retention intervals, and
> didn't have much downtime was the _creme_de_la_creme_ - as I recall, I
> managed to sign up with some German uni that had an excellent feed, and
> didn't have any trouble from then on (unfortunately, I don't recall the
> name of it now; they may still be around. All they required was a valid
> email address and waiting a week or so for validation.)

I suspect that the free German Uni feed is the same one I had. 

It's now http://individual.net/ and while it's no longer free, it's very cheap 
at 10 Euros per year.

Neil Youngman