…but this is reality so give us some room.”
Switching from dialup to broadband meant losing access to Usenet, via news.demon.co.uk. Which means no late night lyrics posting sprees on alt.punk.
They were pointless, childish and pretty stupid. I kind of miss them. Google groups just ain’t the same, somehow. Anyone know a good NNTP server?
Try Newsparrot for a list of free news servers. Not sure what the group coverage will be like though. Personally I find it worth paying 30 quid a year for a 10Gb/month Claranews account, it’s rock solid and carries binary groups.
easy one, dude.
http://www.newzbot.com/
there used to be tons of nntp servers that were pretty open. To be fair, I haven’t tried this list in a couple of years, but give it a shot.