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Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:

[...] Dear Users of the news server News.Individual.DE / News.Individual.NET,

We hereby announce the discontinuation of the service as of 30 September 2027 (that is two years from now).

Use of the service will no longer be possible after this date.

Bah.

[...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?
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Le 30/09/2025 |a 13:01, Aidan Kehoe a |-crit :

Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:

> [...] Dear Users of the news server News.Individual.DE /
> News.Individual.NET,
>
> We hereby announce the discontinuation of the service as of 30 September
> 2027 (that is two years from now).
>
> Use of the service will no longer be possible after this date.

Bah.

> [...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
> that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

Works fine for me - but "we will no longer accept new registrations for
the service".

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Aidan Kehoe hat am 30.09.2025 um 14:01 geschrieben:

Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:

[...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

I've been using Ethernal September since September 2007. Only a couple
of hiccups so far.
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Le 30/09/2025 |a 13:17, Hibou a |-crit :

Le 30/09/2025 |a 13:01, Aidan Kehoe a |-crit :

-a Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:

-a > [...] Dear Users of the news server News.Individual.DE /
-a > News.Individual.NET,
-a >
-a > We hereby announce the discontinuation of the service as of 30
September
-a > 2027 (that is two years from now).
-a >
-a > Use of the service will no longer be possible after this date.

Bah.

-a > [...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-
september.com. Hope
-a > that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

[news.individual.net] Works fine for me - but "we will no longer accept new registrations for
the service".

I've used Eternal September too. I have a feeling that there were
occasional problems, but on the whole it was all right.

Pretty decent of the University of Berlin to give two full years' notice.

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On 30/09/2025 at 13:34, Silvano wrote:

Aidan Kehoe hat am 30.09.2025 um 14:01 geschrieben:

Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:
> [...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
> that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

I've been using Ethernal September since September 2007. Only a couple
of hiccups so far.

ITYM news.eternal-september.org
--
Chris Elvidge, England
NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR FROM MY ARMPITS
Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 3F01

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On 30/09/2025 14:34, Silvano wrote:

Aidan Kehoe hat am 30.09.2025 um 14:01 geschrieben:

Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:

[...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

I've been using Ethernal September since September 2007. Only a couple
of hiccups so far.

Yes, although one of those 'hiccups' was quite an extensive outage which
lasted over a month. That is when I switched over to Individual.net,
which has been steady as a rock. I will be sorry to see them go.
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On 30/09/2025 14:55, Hibou wrote:

Le 30/09/2025 |a 13:17, Hibou a |-crit :

<snip>

Pretty decent of the University of Berlin to give two full years' notice.

Yes, and without charging for their service until then.
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:10:34 +0200, occam wrote:

I know that some people in this newsgroup gain access to Usenet via News.Individual.Net, an FUBerlin service.

This morning I received the following message from them.

I got the mail as well and replied by thanking them and to please
reconsider. I already paid until 2026, so I will have 1 year for free.

This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
that's still around after Sep 2027.

I also have Solani and in 2013 I bought a block of 25 GiB for $ 10 at
Astraweb. I still have 24,95 GiB left. (-:
--
s|b
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:01:49 +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

[...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

I have Fort|- Agent set up with multiple servers, but my main server is
NIN. I've known ES to be down or having some hiccup, but never for a
long time.

I prefer NIN, not only because I don't remember them having any
downtime, ever, and they filter out spam. Something ES does as well.
--
s|b
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:11:11 +0200, occam wrote:

Pretty decent of the University of Berlin to give two full years' notice.

Yes, and without charging for their service until then.

No complaints whatsoever! But please mail them to reconsider, I did!
--
s|b
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On 2025-09-30, occam wrote:

On 30/09/2025 14:55, Hibou wrote:

Le 30/09/2025 |a 13:17, Hibou a |-crit :

<snip>

Pretty decent of the University of Berlin to give two full years' notice.

Yes, and without charging for their service until then.

Impressive.
--
I don't care if you think the earth is flat.
--Gene Simmons
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:08:56 +0200, occam wrote:

Yes, although one of those 'hiccups' was quite an extensive outage which lasted over a month. That is when I switched over to Individual.net,
which has been steady as a rock. I will be sorry to see them go.

I've been using NIN since 2013. Very sad to see them go.
--
s|b
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:34:05 +0200, Silvano
<Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> wrote:

Aidan Kehoe hat am 30.09.2025 um 14:01 geschrieben:

Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:

[...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

I've been using Ethernal September since September 2007. Only a couple
of hiccups so far.

I'm pretty sure you both should be spelling that without the h,

https://www.eternal-september.org/
--
Rich Ulrich
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Den 30.09.2025 kl. 14.34 skrev Silvano:

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

I've been using Ethernal September since September 2007. Only a couple
of hiccups so far.

I've forgotten when I started using it.
--
Bertel, Kolt, Danmark

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Rich Ulrich hat am 30.09.2025 um 17:28 geschrieben:

On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:34:05 +0200, Silvano
<Silvano@noncisonopernessuno.it> wrote:

Aidan Kehoe hat am 30.09.2025 um 14:01 geschrieben:

Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:

[...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

I've been using Ethernal September since September 2007. Only a couple
of hiccups so far.

I'm pretty sure you both should be spelling that without the h,

https://www.eternal-september.org/

You're right. I didn't check before answering.

@ Bertel: me too. But I found a question to the admin I had sent him
shortly after I started using this service.
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On 2025-09-30 06:01, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

Ar an triochad|| l|i de m|! M|-an F||mhair, scr|!obh occam:

> [...] Dear Users of the news server News.Individual.DE /
> News.Individual.NET,
>
> We hereby announce the discontinuation of the service as of 30 September
> 2027 (that is two years from now).
>
> Use of the service will no longer be possible after this date.

Bah.

> [...] This leaves me with the alternative News.ethernal-september.com. Hope
> that's still around after Sep 2027.

Have you used it before? Is it any good?

Works. No idea of it's relative usability vs. other services.
--
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In that same 17 years, only 1 person has died from eating a doughnut.


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El Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:05:02 +0200, s|b escribi||:

On Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:08:56 +0200, occam wrote:

Yes, although one of those 'hiccups' was quite an extensive outage
which lasted over a month. That is when I switched over to
Individual.net, which has been steady as a rock. I will be sorry to see
them go.

I've been using NIN since 2013. Very sad to see them go.

I think I've been using that server since the 90s.
--
Paul.

https://paulc.es

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