[46393] in Cypherpunks
Re: Compuserve *hasn't* banned newsgroups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Thomas)
Wed Jan 3 16:30:32 1996
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:46:03 -0500 (EST)
From: Joe Thomas <jthomas@access.digex.net>
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960103180226.006a9ffc@panix.com>
On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Duncan Frissell wrote:
> You mean that the thirty-some odd open news servers listed on
> http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~jwa/open-sites.html might get swamped. Then the
> CIS refugees will be forced to pay Sameer the massive $12.50 (?) a month for
> a net-access-only account and read off of c2.org's server. (Or any of the
> thousands of sites worldwide one can open a shell account on.)
Cheaper still (and more compatible with GUI newsreaders) try AltNet:
> telnet news.alt.net nntp
Trying 204.137.156.2...
Connected to tofu.alt.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Mail info@alt.net for info about $5/month NNTP access (posting ok).
If you can't afford $5/month, you're not using Compu$erve.
Joe
(not affliated with AltNet, just giving them a random plug)
