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    From Jonathan Harston@jgh@mdfs.net to alt.sys.pdp11 on Mon Dec 18 09:39:30 2023
    From Newsgroup: alt.sys.pdp11

    Usenet has been swamped with span for years now, and Google Groups
    is pulling the plug on the usenet feed. Ironically as most of the spam
    has come from the Google Groups feed rather than the other way.

    I've been dipping into usnet less and less because I tend to access it
    through Google from whatever computer I happen to be sat in front of,
    and the experience and content has been getting steadily worse.

    Where are people here migrating to?

    jgh
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  • From scott@scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) to alt.sys.pdp11 on Mon Dec 18 18:28:21 2023
    From Newsgroup: alt.sys.pdp11

    Jonathan Harston <jgh@mdfs.net> writes:
    Usenet has been swamped with span for years now, and Google Groups
    is pulling the plug on the usenet feed. Ironically as most of the spam
    has come from the Google Groups feed rather than the other way.

    I've been dipping into usnet less and less because I tend to access it >through Google from whatever computer I happen to be sat in front of,
    and the experience and content has been getting steadily worse.

    Where are people here migrating to?

    I don't plan on migrating anywhere so long as there is an NNTP
    server running somewhere.
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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@lars.spam@nocrew.org to alt.sys.pdp11 on Tue Dec 19 05:22:04 2023
    From Newsgroup: alt.sys.pdp11

    Jonathan Harston wrote:
    Where are people here migrating to?

    You can migrate off Google Group to Usenet services like these:

    http://www.eternal-september.org/
    http://news.dotsrc.org/
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  • From Andy Valencia@vandys@vsta.org to alt.sys.pdp11 on Mon Dec 25 15:03:24 2023
    From Newsgroup: alt.sys.pdp11

    Jonathan Harston <jgh@mdfs.net> writes:
    Where are people here migrating to?

    I mostly use: eternal-september.org

    news.individual.net has worked well for me in the past--it's
    a paid service based in Germany, and some billing hassles trying
    to get a payment through forced me back to eternal-september

    Andy Valencia
    Home page: https://www.vsta.org/andy/
    To contact me: https://www.vsta.org/contact/andy.html
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  • From bill@bill.gunshannon@gmail.com to alt.sys.pdp11 on Mon Dec 25 20:20:45 2023
    From Newsgroup: alt.sys.pdp11

    On 12/25/2023 6:03 PM, Andy Valencia wrote:
    Jonathan Harston <jgh@mdfs.net> writes:
    Where are people here migrating to?

    I mostly use: eternal-september.org

    news.individual.net has worked well for me in the past--it's
    a paid service based in Germany, and some billing hassles trying
    to get a payment through forced me back to eternal-september

    Interesting. I use PayPal and it is simple and trouble free.

    bill


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