usenet

whats the current state of usenet? ghost town or decent resource?

Apparently a lot of people use it for pirating now that torrents are targeted a lot more than they used to be. As for actual usenet communities I'm not sure.

Can someone explain me why usenet connection is usually paid contrary to other legacy networks laid over Internet? Is it possible to create my own newsgroup and peer with others for free?

>>6523 Used to be included with pretty much any plan from any ISP, but I guess (((they))) wanted to get rid of it, being the greedy fuarrrks they are, so a while back there was a big thing about CP and Usenet, and all the ISPs used that as an excuse to drop the service essentially. Since then it's somewhat of a ghost town except for pay2pirate users, because no one else is going to pay to use it, and the only way now is more or less to pay, sort of. You can always set up your own server and such, it's only groups like binaries or whatever that hold huge amounts of data depending on retention that require much hardware/bandwidth, normal conversational type groups require almost negligible resources, the only problem is at this point a lack of community and incessant spam. AFAIK anyway lol.

>>6523 >Can someone explain me why usenet connection is usually paid contrary to other legacy networks laid over Internet? There are plenty of free, text-only servers. It's the ones that carry the binary groups that charge for access. The reason for this is the huge resource requirements: while a text-only feed is about 500 MB/day, the binaries, which are mostly warez, are more than 20 TB/day. I think this is also the main reason most ISPs dropped usenet. >Is it possible to create my own newsgroup and peer with others for free? It's news servers that do peering. Newsgroups are carried by the servers and usually propagated automatically through the net with control messages. The process for creating a newsgroup differes depending on the heirarchy, but, basically, you post a proposal, discuss it, and then the heirarchy administrators decided whether to accept it or not. See: http://www.big-8.org/articles/h/o/w/How_to_Create_a_New_Big-8_Newsgroup.html Peering for text only servers is usually free but not automatic. You have to contact other newsmasters and ask for feeds. See: https://news.aioe.org/index.php?id=how-to-setup-a-feed-with-aioeorg It's been a while since I actually read the news, but as I recall, many of the technical groups are still going. comp.lang.* and the like.

>>6528 > the only way now is more or less to pay, sort of. http://www.eternal-september.org/ I think they provide a free access to text only usenet. I never tired to connect so I'm not 100% sure does it work.