On Wed Feb 21 01:46:28 2024 Klaus Kragelund wrote:

On Tuesday 13 February 2024 at 01:05:53 UTC+1, Fred Bloggs wrote:

They're already winding down, limiting posts to about 5/ hour. That's one way to reduce spam. People who won't miss google are the reason google has decided usenet is not worth pursuing.

What would be a good server to use going ahead?

All the free providers seem gone, but I'm reasonably happy with www.newshosting.com Works fine with thunderbird, but you have to use their free newsreading program if you want more search capability than thunderbird provides. Searches are definitely
oriented towards binaries but text groups work ok.

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Regards,
Carl

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