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"jerrybuilt" ] writes:
BigWallop wrote:
"MR" no-email-address wrote...
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See my reply in: free.uk.diy.home

I can't *get* free.* newsgroups.

They were created by someone who didn't like newsadmins
in response to being disciplined for abuse of usenet
or failing to get groups created by recognised means
or some such IIRC. Consequently, much of the usenet
transit systems don't carry them and article propagation
is very poor compared with all the other top level groups.

I run a news transit system, and I don't take any of the
free.* groups. A couple of years ago, I looked into them
and noticed that they seem to run as disconnected islands;
we'll get groups of articles from one peer and completely
different ones from another peer in the same free.*
newsgroup. Volume was low and they were pretty much all
just copies of existing newsgroups. Really, they should
be left to die.

--
Andrew Gabriel