Via isotopp: news.individual.net now costs 10 EURO/year.
I registered ca. 7 years ago and still use the account as a backup for my providers newsserver (although mostly for lurking).
Now the alternatives are: a) Pay 10 Euros b) VPN or Tunnel to my universities news server c) news.arcor.de (I have not found out where to register for free access) d) Usenet is dead.
news.individual.net goes $$$$
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- Mela commented on news.individual.net goes $$$$: [x] Tunnel
[x] Tunnel
:-)
Unfortunately the Aconet Newsserver is one of the worst newsservers i know, (although it is running on FreeBSD IIRC). Diskspace is usually low, which results to some articles being unavailable after two or three days.
I don't need binaries, and I only need the hierarchies comp.*, de*, at* and sometimes luebeck*
How about http://news.cis.dfn.de/? I had a quick look at the page. Looks as if they are still open and free.
Btw: Usenet advanced to the new filesharing heaven in the last two years. Pushing 1.5TB of new data per day is nothing unusual and as a matter of fact I do enjoy it :)
news.cis.dfn.de is the old name of news.individual.net. news.cis.dfn.de now is only free for customers of DFN (e.g. German universities).
Well, I never understood the concept of binaries in newsgroups. (But i don't understand the concept of modern p2p-filesharing like Kazaa, edonkey or bittorrent either)
An annual charge of �10 isn't $$$$, it looks like an administrative fee for bandwidth etc.
IIRC it was next to the T-Online newsserver the largest newsserver in de.* and a piece of german Usenet culture, so this definately has impact (oh wow, it was submitted to /.)
Heiko, Vera & Co are definetly nice people, as they did not terminate my account a few years ago, when due to a suck misconfiguration my server tried to post several 10.000 articles of my private arved.* hierarchy.
The ACOnet newsserver you are using at the TU Wien does not run on FreeBSD.