On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Chad Walstrom wrote: > Except for the fact that news servers aren't as popular as you seem to > be proporting. With the exception of gmane.org, access to news servers > is rarely unlimited. In order to use Visi's, the U of MN's, or Sihopes, > you have to either ask for an account (and pay), or have an existing > account. gmane.org, googlegroups give free access to most newsgroups. most, if not all, ISPs have a news feed that said ISPs customers can use for free. it seems to me that the reason usenet is not as popular anymore is because it is such a bandwidth sink, no matter how much you throw at it, it always wants more. -- Munir Nassar RedConcepts.NET http://redconcepts.net/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list