Re: Help save usenet news for Time-Warner customers

"Robert Melson" <melsonr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:YNydnSBDQLcEXO_VnZ2dnUVZ_oHinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Guess I can count myself lucky:  my ISP (earthlink) merely
> shopped their usenet "connections" to a 3d party, one of the
> larger news-only operations.  What this will mean down line is
> anybody's guess, but seems to be working tolerably well for now.
>

The Dutch Surfnet is dropping Usenet as of 1 Aug, according to an 
announcement I've seen. I'm lucky, my employer is going to retian it 
for at least a year, except the binary groups.
This is beginning to look like a mass exit from the Newsgroups!
Lesley Robertson