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    From Jesse Rehmer@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 17 15:19:15 2022
    My understanding of the Usenet topology in that part of the world is
    nil, and given the current situation this may not come with popularity,
    but are there any Russian, Ukrainian, etc. Usenet services in operation?

    It feels like neva.ru was the last (known to me) Russia based Usenet
    service, and while there are some .ru and .ua domain names showing up in Top1000 reports, from what I can tell these are due to servers being fed
    old articles and gathering inpath data (I'm guilty of this before I
    realized).

    I know there are still services operating in Poland, for example, but
    what about the rest of that part of the world (east/south of Germany and Poland)?

    Regards,

    Jesse Rehmer

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  • From Martin Burmester@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 20 13:37:06 2022
    Hi,

    Am 17.06.2022 um 22:19 schrieb Jesse Rehmer:
    My understanding of the Usenet topology in that part of the world is
    nil, and given the current situation this may not come with popularity,
    but are there any Russian, Ukrainian, etc. Usenet services in operation?

    I dont think where a news server is located matters that much these days
    to users.

    It is my understanding that in the former soviet union Fidonet protocol
    is much more widely used than elsewhere. A lot is gated to usenet in the
    fido7 hierarchy. No idea where the gateway is located tough.

    Also I have no idea how all that is affected by russian internet
    censorship or how it might be affected in the future, but maybe thats interesting to watch.

    Cheers
    Martin

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to Martin Burmester on Fri Aug 26 16:12:51 2022
    On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:37:06 +0200
    Martin Burmester <martin@burmester.org> wrote:

    Also I have no idea how all that is affected by russian internet
    censorship or how it might be affected in the future, but maybe thats interesting to watch.

    I don't think that this will be affected, because usenet is a place
    where people with technical knowledge write - it is unknown for
    "normal" people.

    Censorship in Russia is also different from Censorship in Ukraine and
    from censorship in the European Union.

    They want to block different things, in the EU this is done via DNS
    resolvers the providers operate. If you use another one (maybe your
    own), no censorship.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to Jesse Rehmer on Fri Aug 26 16:24:57 2022
    On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 15:19:15 -0500
    Jesse Rehmer <jesse.rehmer@blueworldhosting.com> wrote:

    I know there are still services operating in Poland, for example, but
    what about the rest of that part of the world (east/south of Germany
    and Poland)?

    In Russia there are still some, they are also reachable. https://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/Public/NNTP/url.htm

    In Germany are also some, eternal-september.org, news.solani.org, some
    operated by Universities like Stuttgart.

    Also see here: https://news.aioe.org/stats/feeds/

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