They were indeed using telus for their newsgroups. Here is the response I got from them via email:
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Thank you for your recent inquiry. We appreciate the opportunity to respond.
The domain name news.eastlink.ca routes to Telus' newsgroup service, which EastLink used to use for providing newsgroup service to our customers. EastLink formally ended support for newsgroups and terminated this arrangement with Telus over a year and a half ago, yet due to a few clerical errors Telus continued to permit EastLink IPs to use their service, and EastLink neglected to remove the routing for news.eastlink.ca.
If you are no longer able to access the newsgroup server, it would be because Telus has updated their records to remove access to EastLink's IP blocks. EastLink no longer offers newsgroup service directly; we encourage our customers to investigate alternative news servers or services.
We apologize for the confusion this has caused, and we thank you for choosing EastLink. We look forward to serving your communication and entertainment needs.
Thank you,
EastLink Customer Care
Anyone know any good free news servers that would include hfx.general and hfx.forsale? I used to enjoy checking in on hfx.general every once in a while.
