Scott Reynolds wrote:

> Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> > Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> >
> >>As I suspect many of you did, I got an email from the German news server
> >>that they are going to start charging a fee as of April 1.
> >
> > Oh dear.
> >
> > If you do not mind a lag of a few hours to see any new messages, Deja is
> > still available, right?
>
> Nope, it's been swallowed up by Google.

Oh, yeah. My old Deja account from 2000 is still an active Google Groups
account. Is that not free?

> I suppose I am just lucky with my ISP's news server. There's been nary a
> hiccup over the past several years. But then again I do have to use a
> pay server for binaries.