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OK, a bit off topic but may apply to others at universities as they
upgrade their computer
systems.

So UPenn and Drexel have pulled the plug on their USENET news
servers. I'm looking for recommendations on newsgroup access,
preferably via GNUS, which many consider antiquated, as far as I can
tell, it is 10 times faster to read and post than using the fancy GUI
"modern" alternatives.

Thanks!


I've been using news.astraweb.com as of late, mostly for binaries groups
though, since my ISP dropped binary groups (damn Telus).
What I like about them, is you can buy a 110GB block for $25, that never
expires. I would imagine if you mostly use text news groups that this would
last almost forever.

Mike