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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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On 2010-03-01, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> Simon Clubley writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> Have you considered using eternal-september.org ?
>>
>> I am currently using it with slrn.
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> Hallelujah, you made my day Simon!
>
> I was not aware of this news service.  I subscribed and am posting from
> emacs now!
>
> Thank you!
>

You are welcome - glad I could help.

Another free news server is news.sunsite.dk, now renamed to
http://dotsrc.org/usenet/ . While they are free, they only carry a limited
set of groups such as the comp.* hierarchy. The groups they carry are
listed here:

http://dotsrc.org/usenet/ossgroups/

Simon.

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