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Nanook DFRN

Looking for New Usenet News Provider

Usenet News
Posted on September 3, 2021

The Usenet News service I have been using to provide news for our shell servers seems to have gone TU without warning. They sent me no notice but just disappeared from the Web. They were a US based firm but the domain name is now owned by an outfit in England. There is no website, phone numbers disconnected, no e-mail addresses working, no way to find out what happened.

I am looking for a new provider but in the meantime I apologize but no Usenet News available until and unless I can find a replacement.

If anyone knows of a potential replacement please contact support@eskimo.com or via the Fediverse nanook@friendica.eskimo.com.

Shoreline, WA, USA
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@Fritz-Ferdinand von Pinguin Mostly because the volume of traffic is huge and so it needs significant investment to handle a full feed. It is a store and forward network, common in the days when dial up connectivity was the norm. Only back then it was mainly used for short text messages, now idiots post entire movies to it.
@Fritz-Ferdinand von Pinguin Yes it is the sheer volume that makes it expensive. I had a 56k satellite link feeding me, it was inadequate, now a 100mb/s internet link is inadequate which is why I've taken to outsourcing it. You really need to be at one of the CIX locations so you have free bandwidth in order to make it economical.
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