On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:03:12 -0500
> At one time they ran their own servers (east coast and
> west coast yet), but subcontracted to Giganews under those domain
> names. Earthlink did discontinue the service for new customers about
> 5 or 6 years ago, but pre-existing customers were grand-fathered.
Yeah, I've been on Giganews before. They have really anal peering
policies that require you to pay them for peering. They are trying to
centralized USENET or something. I'm suprised I can communicate with
you here, most of the time when I was using Giganews, there were always
netsplits.
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