>
>> >>> >>
>>> >>>> >> Ta ta virgin media newsgroups....
>>> >
>>> >Do you mean ta ta to the newsgroups, or to their news server (which >>> is a
>>> >re-sold service from an external provider anyway these days)? >>
>>> I got an email from Virg>>
>>> "We wanted to give you a heads-up that the Usenet platform is being
>>> removed from the Virgin Media service on 30th June 2021. After this
>>> time you will not be able to add or remove content from the platform." >>
>>> So I take it that they're removing the news server. No apology, no
>>> more advice. Pity, because their broadband and cable tv are quite >>> efficient.
>>
>>> Could someone please recommend where I could now get Usenet access? >>
>> Same happened to me ages ago. Think with TalkTalk.
>>
>> There are two common free servers, News Eternal Septemeber and AIOE. >> Worth
>> having both as they don't both carry the full range of groups. >
> Makes a lot more sense to use news.individual.net
> for peanuts and get vastly better reliability and the
> full range of groups apart from the binary groups.
>
> Very decent but not perfect dumping of spam posts too.
so where are you going to get your drugs then ? ...