Usenet closing entire 'rec.crafts.textiles' section?

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:16:30 -0500, YarnWright spewed forth :

No, but it wouldn't surprise me. There's no money to be made off of us. All the pr0n and warez leeches are where the money is these days: binaries or bust is the new news services motto.

Roadrunner just throttles NNTP speed to force people elsewhere. Last time I bothered to check binary groups are retained for 48 hours, putative text-only groups for 14 days.

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

Haven't heard any such thing. Are sure these messages aren't spoofed? Could the ol' tr**ls be back?

Georgia

Maybe some servers are dropping them. I use the one out of Berlin, and I haven't received any such notice.

The Other Kim kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom

I use several free servers and haven't received anything along these lines. Usenet exists, there's really no one `in charge' of it and it's up to individual service providers to carry groups. Evidently Noreen's is dropping these in order to carry others. There's way over 100,000 groups - few providers carry all of them.

sue

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 19:22:27 -0400, suzee spun a fine yarn

Sue, I use 5 different NTTP servers, my ISP's (which I HATE, hardly ever use, thats why I have the next 4), news.individual.net, mailgate.org, newsgate.x-privat.org, and aioe.org... and these emails all came in yesterday. Noreen back into lurkdom.

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:39:17 -0500, YarnWright spewed forth :

It looks as if those are all in .eu and most likely all using the same upstream feed. If they're all saying they're about to drop rec.* or subsets thereof I'd guess that the upstream feed is dropping them.

As somebody else said, very few providers carry every group in existance, for a wide variety of reasons all hinging on money.

Reply to the list as I do not publish an email address to USENET. This practice has cut my spam by more than 95%. Of course, I did have to abandon a perfectly good email account...

I haven`t got such a notice ?????????????????? mirjam

Okay, now, I use

The Other Kim kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom

I have not received a notice to this effect either - I access through google. Judy

I think someone's trying to pull something on you. aioe.org is one of the ones I use and have *never* got an email from them about anything. The guy who runs it is too busy to send them out to announce the `demise' of an hierarchy.

sue

It wouldn't be "usenet" closing it down, however, just some providers not carrying the feeds anymore. Any change to the usenet hierarchy has to be approved by a vote, doesn't it? At least that was the case for many years of my participation, which began almost 20 years ago.

I use news.individual.net and I haven't heard anything about closing r.c.t.*.

I would think that is is "hear-say" Maybe it is a good idea to not believe everything that is posted on the internet. Use your own common sense and that will get you a long way.

When I open Newswatcher, to access RCTY the message I get is a list of new groups that have formed.

Els

Me either, so I'm not gonna worry about it. (shrug)

Shelagh

I use sympatico in Canada, and they advised me that they were charging extra for newsgroups, and as I did not pay the extra, they all disappeared. I am now trying to use Google for NGs, (does it work?) but may also switch to cable for high speed (and for the phones as well?) Bell are really doing a bad job in this part of the world.

Roger.

JCT wrote:

I am using comcast for the newsgroups but have never used the e-mail or any of their other stuff. I only use the access for internet and the newsgroups. Works great. Carol in TN

Google groups works okay for newsgroups. Just be aware that their default reply option does not quote the message you're replying to. You need to click on Show Options first, then use the reply link at the top of the message, not the one at the bottom.

sue

Why don't you use Comcast of newsgroups? DA