In uk.net.news.management on Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:52:42 +0000, Sn!pe
 wrote:

> John Hall  wrote:
>
>> In article <1j8lndj.60r5bli09g1bN%snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk>,
>>  Sn!pe  writes:
>
>> >I have a stable of eleven good, free, text newsservers, collected over
>> >the years. Of those at least half offer a perceived service every bit as
>> >good as e.g. NIN; several run Cleanfeed. Nobody need pay for text Usenet
>> >service these days.
>> 
>> Eleven! That seems somewhat excessive. If they are so good, then why do
>> you need so many?
>
> Oh, it's a bit of a hobby ever since freeserve dropped Usenet service. 

I didn't know they'd done that. Yet another purveyor of net.idiocy
has bitten the dust!

> I went looking in alt.free.newsservers, became fascinated and stayed. 
> This was in the days before afn got trashed of course, although even
> today there is still a hard core of worthwhile posters there.

I still subscribe to AFN, but mostly I don't have time to do more than
skim the Subjects, notice which nutters are noisiest, and then mark
the group read.


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