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>>> Great initiative and idea! While I am personally not interested in
> reading USENET that much nowadays, the concept of providing free, public
> access to classic Internet services (public USENET, FTP, IRC, finger, etc.)
> gets all my praise. What happened to free, public services these days?
> Everything appears to to be subscriber pay-as-you-go based. The
> commercialization killed the free spirit of Internet we all loved in the
> 90s.
>

See tildeverse.org.