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Date:	Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:40:04 -0700
From:	madodel <madodel@ptdprolog.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: OS/2 newsgroups

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Tom Brown wrote:
> I just got back from vacation, and have been catching up on OS/2 related
> newsgroups (comp.os.os2.xxx) using ProNews/2 and news-server.san.rr.com
> for a server. I have found that many of the articles have already
> expired even though some were posted just last week.
>
> There must be other servers that keep the OS/2 stuff around longer!
>
> What servers do you other SCOUG members use?
>
> Thanks!

There is a listing of news providers on the Big8 web site (which I
maintain, so if anyone knows of additions/corrections please let me know) -
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers

Besides my own ISP's news server (which is actually provided now by
Giganews) I also subscribe to Individual.net ( http://news.individual.net )
as a backup. It is in Germany but anyone can subscribe. Its only 10 EURO
a year (I put it on a charge card and they figure out the conversion).
They don't allow any binaries, but for the comp.*.*.* groups they retain
posts for 223 days. A list of what hierarchies they carry and how long
they retain posts can be found at
http://news.individual.net/hierarchies.php I don't need the backup so much
anymore since my ISP stopped doing their own news (extremely badly when
they did), but for that price its worth keeping.

Mark

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