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mood · #**220** 03-04-2002, 03:20 PM

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Originally posted by wot-Mike

I wonder about the legality of just connecting to any news-server that happens to allow posting to anyone, or even reading. I haven't found a single site that actually advertises with "hey, you can post all you want though our newsserver".

That's the thing that bugs me about this.

Although this is Off Topic as well: NNTP is about enormous bandwidth & storage strain. If a service is free - who pays for the boxes? Most of the free Usenet is either school financed, underground or newbies wanting to run a server and suddenly noticing that their 80 GB IDE drive has been filled in a few hours.

If you translate the time you spend trying to find a free server to $$ you'd be able to afford any premium service out there. My count works like this: 1.5 beer less per week will pay for my NNTP account for a year :-)

Mood

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