good Usenet feed service in Toronto?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Stephen A. wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:20:55PM -0500 or thereabouts, DanG wrote:
> > Anyone know of a good usenet service in Toronto for just news. Something
> > that keeps posts for 30 days and has about a 1 GB per day limit. Rogers nntp
> > server is pretty bad.
>
> Well, if it's just for news, not downloading of binaries, one can't find
> a better deal than CIS.DFN.DE. Based in Berlin, a university site. One
> has to use a legit address when posting, and it's free. To subscribe,
> visit <http://news.individual.net/>. I'm on Rogers, and CIS is the only
> newsserver I use, and have for several years.

    I second that.

    I created a new mail address on Rogers to use just for usenet
    reading and posting after the SWEN virus hit last September.

    I wrote a script to delete all the mail received at that address
    without downloading it.


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