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number of resources. Once registered, users can typically access email,
Usenet newsgroups, chat rooms (typically IRC), telnet, and often other services.Unlike most modern ISPs, Free-nets provide direct terminal-based dialup instead of PPP. The increased availability/affordability of PPP dialup connections, and more recently cable and DSL has largely obsoleted the free-net community, and so a number of the free-nets, including the original Cleveland Freenet, have shut down.