Well, in the 6 or so years I have been surfing this site, the activity
always drops in the 'nice' weather. Also, the spammers kind of dampen
the feel of the site. I guess they can't read that this is for
WOODTURNING.
robo hippy

On May 1, 11:10*pm, "Bill Noble" wrote:
there are a range of free servers, that you can easily subscribe to - they
include teranews and motzarella.org among others. *And there are some pay by
the month (or year) servers as well that may offer superiour service and
more binaries. *Personally, the two I listed meet my needs

"Dave Balderstone" wrote in message

news:010520090022387784%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderst one.ca...



In article , charlieb
wrote:

Activity here seems to have dropped off quite a bit. *Is my news server
not getting most messages - or is everyone out enjoying the nice
weather?

Some of the state (cough, New York, cough) AG's in the US of A decided
about a year ago that binary newsgroups were Evil Incarnate and
pressured the major US ISPs to drop them For the Children's Sake
Because There Are Millions of Predators Online AND I NEED TO BE
REELECTED GODDAMIT.

Will NOBODY think of the CHILDREN?

So you're left with those of us who live in countries whose politicos
have found that ****ing bandwagon yet, or people who are clueful
enought to tell the spineless ISPs to go **** themselves, and moved to
new providers.