Re: Note - ISP Screwed Up - Can WRITE But Not SEE

On 23/01/2025 15:44, D wrote:

  On Wed, 22 Jan 2025, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

On 1/22/25 3:00 PM, Marco Moock wrote:

On 22.01.2025 00:19 Uhr 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
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Well, I can see - by posting with my normal ISP and
then reading from NeoDome (but can't POST from Neo).

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Maybe they restrict posting to avoid abuse.
Ask the admin of it.

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 Yep, they don't allow posting anymore - too
 many spammers. None of the other freebies
 seem to work at all any more or want you
 to "register". Some ISPs block port 119.
 This is not good.
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 My provider finally did fix it. Alas they
 may only have one old guy who knows how
 the NNTP server works. Don't think they
 even offer it to newbies anymore.
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 By modern standards, usenet is kinda small
 data-wise - and mostly just text. Would not
 take a super-box. Maybe some people are
 worried about liability - lots of weird
 stuff here ? Perhaps someone in a kinda
 off-the-map country can start a new free
 service. (hmmm ... Belize maybe?)

 I think it should be entirely feasible, and fairly cheap, to start your own usenet provider on a few hetzner VM:s. The only thing you'd need is a few peers, inn (or equivalent) and off you go.
 I've toyed with the idea myself from time to time, but so far haven't had the time to do something about it since other projects have priority.

Yep.
I have set up a few INN servers. The problem back in the day was the binary newsgroups - people uploading pirate images of massive size..
It does take a bit of looking after. If you let everyone access it before you know it there is a huge amount of illegal shit being transferred on legitimate newsgroups, ratware is smashing against every door it can find and people are trying to DOS it just because someone called them out for being a doofus.
But technically its not hard to do for a small community of users
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