In reply to "innocuous" who wrote the following:
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2017 22:31:27 GMT, 5646@fggd.com wrote:
>
> > Is it just me or has astraweb lost some of its groups ?
>
> Yes. They completely dropped a number of groups. And by "completely" I
> mean you can't download the headers, and even if you've got NZB files
> or old headers stored in your newsreader, you can't download the
> message bodies either. Some examples (there are several others):
> a.b.p.wals, a.b.p.willeymodels, and a.b.p.webeweb. I don't know of any
> provider that still carries those groups, although I'm more familiar
> with the U.S.-based providers than the Dutch ones.
>
> I think this is when and why it happened:
>
> http://helpdesk.astraweb.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=70
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/7l032i/
> astraweb_ip_change_is_highwinds_now/
It was good while it lasted. Forced to be good now.
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