[rescue] Wanted: 486 desktop

[David Griffith]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Tom Manos wrote:

> I really miss the days of a useful and thriving USENET. Google groups is just
> the pits. Things started going down hill as soon as broadband got cheap. I've
> given some thought to starting a dark network running USENET for old geeks and
> by invitation only, but I'm not sure there would be interest. You can do so
> much more with the web these days.

Have you tried using something like eternal-september.org?  It's free, 
accepts donations, and omits the binaries groups to keep the noise down.


-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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