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67845017 (banned)
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[Newsgroups] Readnews is now owned by Highwinds

I believe this happened a couple of months ago. Thoughts?

I haven't noticed much of a difference.

Kosh
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Another one bites the dust. The consolidation in the usenet industry is going to be one of its undoings.
67845017 (banned)
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I agree. I felt pretty confident about Usenet, but I'm questioning things at this point.
activoice
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I used to be able to get fills from Blocknews...(Blocknews is part of Readnews)

But recently Blocknews almost never has any articles that are also missing from Easynews... so maybe those articles are getting DMCA'd at the same time.

So I guess the question is were they just acquired, or was their back end also merged so they all get articles from the same location.. making Blocknews as a fill server relatively useless.

(Wonder if Swintec is around)
67845017 (banned)
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Sounds like it was merged a couple of months ago at least.

»www.reddit.com/r/usenet/ ··· akeover/

juilinsandar
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Great.

kingdome74
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I've never been much of a believer that in the short term there's much of anything that could be a serious threat to usenet but the way things are shifting with FCC power grab and the consolidation of usenet providers the market could become a real devil's soup for users. The FCC likes one thing - money and if Highwinds or some other entity can scoop up the market it's not much of a stretch to see a monitored, heavily-edited profit sharing scheme that cuts out the internet providers while the FCC and Highwinds make a tidy windfall under the guise of an "open" internet. China here we come.
samphar
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My worry exactly. I think that Highwinds has gone after the VPN market with gusto and plans to offer this as a way to get Non US usenet users access to the Netflix and Hulus services after usenet becomes unusable. They have a ton of bandwidth, any thoughts of them offering streaming services themselves.

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We'll always have Astra . . . (I hope!).
JazzJRabbit
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Wheaton, IL

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Astra has been horrible with incompletes lately. And I do not mean DMCA's, just incompletes. The articles are simply missing. Every once in a while it takes them 12-24 hours to sync with the rest of usenet providers, but just yesterday I've tried getting a 5 day old article, and half of it was missing. Bleh...
67845017 (banned)
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I dumped Astra many years ago.