I see that Sonic offered Usenet service until 2016 https://sonicstatus.com/2016/09/09/usenet-service-ended/ I haven't connected to a Usenet server for I believe around ten years! Brian -- Brian Lavender https://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture