On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:01:18 +0100, Dave <dave@dªv¡dhenniker.org.uk>
wrote:

>Poor old Usenet seems to be fading somewhat, it's all gone web-based.
>I suppose ed.general was hosted by Edinburgh Uni and the
>powers-that-be just pulled the plug. Anyone know?

There is still this newsgroup and alt.uk.edinburgh.misc.. :-)


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On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:48:04 +0100, Brian Howie
 somehow managed to impart:

[snip]
>>>I suppose ed.general was hosted by Edinburgh Uni and the
>>>powers-that-be just pulled the plug. Anyone know?
>>
>>There is still this newsgroup and alt.uk.edinburgh.misc.. :-)
>>
>
>It's still there, last posting was dated 17th July. Maybe the OP's  ISP 
>has dumped it.
>
>It's not hosted by anyone, that's the beauty of USENET.
>However I'm puzzled about it as it is not part of the uk.* hierarchy
>
>Brian

Aha! It's largely down to the usenet servers I was using, I found out
by accident! I've been paying a modest amount for access to Agent's
server which has a longer retention time than free servers. They
couldn't renew my subscription because I changed credit cards, so
thinking that usenet was on the way out anyway, I just let it lapse.

This morning I changed server priority back to the free Astraweb
server, and lo and behold, I'm getting all the stuff that I've been
missing!

regards Dave.
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