Death of usenet

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

I know that the death of usenet has been predicted many times,
but at least in my corner of the world it seems to be actually 
happening.

My University dropped its usenet feed at the end of the Summer;
my ISP (Comcast) is dropping it as of this week.

While it may be possible for me to find a pay-for-service newsfeed
elsewhere, expecting our user community to pay for access to
support requests seems unreasonable.   I realize that delayed 
access through Google and Gmane may well continue, but I can't
be the only one who finds that mechanism painfully slow.

So unless I find an alternative quickly, I will disappear from
comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot

The "Help forum" on the gnuplot SourceForge site has historically
been drowing in spam, and seems to be broken completely today.
Here's the error I see when trying to access it from the main site:

  An error occurred while loading http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php
  Connection to host sourceforge.net is broken. 

Any ideas how we might move forward to a new user support mechanism?

-- 
Ethan A Merritt