-=> Fireball wrote to Fred Smith <=-   
      
    >   
    >  >  > Is there a place I can get a news feed? It seems most services have a   
    >  >  > TOS "free" only allow reading and not posting. Any help would be   
    >  >  > great!   
    >   
    >  > what you CAN do is buy a block on astraweb and then only use it for   
    >  > non binaries. it will never expire [as far as i know]. you might want to   
    >  > download a binary here and there to make it seem active.   
    >   
    > Sorry I'm super-behind on my posts.  I heard Teranews is okay for this --   
    > you can set up a Rex gateway on your end and "gate" your BBS message area   
    > to Usenet that way.  Wish I remembered the details.   
    >   
      
    Fi> I was thinking a newslink kind of setup, no rex involved. They have a   
    Fi> big no sharing policy... No web-based access of any kind. I may try it   
    Fi> anyway. What's the worse they can do? Ban me? lol   
      
   That's probably just end-user licensing.  Basically, if someone could   
   spend a small amount, then gate to a large audience, it basically   
   end-runs their business model.   
      
   As far as "no web-based access of any kind", that sounds more like   
   Fidonet (or at least, how Zone 2 would like it to be).  I'm not going   
   to go into THAT here...lol.   
      
    Fi> WTF? When did usenet become a tightly controlled commodity? I remember   
    Fi> when it was free for all... But then, most usenet was run by colleges   
    Fi> and universities back then... I may just start my own usenet/nntp style   
    Fi> network and say screw the big guys.   
      
   The network itself is very open.  You just have to find the right feed   
   for your uses.   
      
   Have you tried bbses.info?   
      
       
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