• Re: Do you Usenet?

    From scudo@scudo@tilde.black to tilde.meta on Sun Nov 17 14:41:07 2019
    On 2019-06-11, <nonlinear@radiofreqs.space> <nonlinear@radiofreqs.space> wrote:
    Does anybody regularly read or participate in Usenet? If so, which groups
    do you find are worthwhile?

    not that easy to find freely accessable newsservers nowdays,
    nearly anyone advertising one wants money,
    which in turn means I'm not gonna get on 'em
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  • From Matthew (NB0X)@nonlinear@radiofreqs.space to tilde.meta on Mon Nov 18 03:07:36 2019
    On 2019-11-17, scudo@tilde.black <scudo@tilde.black> wrote:
    not that easy to find freely accessable newsservers nowdays,
    nearly anyone advertising one wants money,
    which in turn means I'm not gonna get on 'em

    It is difficult to find freely accessible newsservers. If you
    can live without binary groups, I recommend:
    https://eternal-september.org

    --
    nonlinear
    RadioFreqs.space Admin
    Amateur radio - NB0X
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  • From James Tomasino@tomasino@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Wed Dec 4 11:13:19 2019
    On 2019-11-17, scudo@tilde.black <scudo@tilde.black> wrote:
    On 2019-06-11, <nonlinear@radiofreqs.space> wrote:
    Does anybody regularly read or participate in Usenet? If so, which groups >> do you find are worthwhile?

    not that easy to find freely accessable newsservers nowdays,
    nearly anyone advertising one wants money,
    which in turn means I'm not gonna get on 'em

    I dug around and found my way back in a year or two ago and it was very
    sad. The whole place felt like a graveyard that had been overrun by spam
    weeds. There were small pockets of people posting here and there, but so
    many of the groups were empty. It reminded me of driving through a dead
    steel town in the US. Blech.
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  • From Stelima@stelima@tilde.intitute to tilde.meta on Sat Sep 19 12:20:18 2020
    Il 04/12/2019 06:13, James Tomasino ha scritto:
    On 2019-11-17, scudo@tilde.black <scudo@tilde.black> wrote:
    On 2019-06-11, <nonlinear@radiofreqs.space> wrote:
    Does anybody regularly read or participate in Usenet? If so, which groups >>> do you find are worthwhile?

    not that easy to find freely accessable newsservers nowdays,
    nearly anyone advertising one wants money,
    which in turn means I'm not gonna get on 'em

    I dug around and found my way back in a year or two ago and it was very
    sad. The whole place felt like a graveyard that had been overrun by spam weeds. There were small pockets of people posting here and there, but so
    many of the groups were empty. It reminded me of driving through a dead
    steel town in the US. Blech.

    There are specialized newsgroups active, with little spam and trolls.
    Sure thay are little known so it is "security by obscurity" but for now
    it works.
    I follow some of them loosely.
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  • From Retrograde@fungus@amongus.com.invalid to tilde.meta on Thu Oct 28 01:46:20 2021
    On 2020-09-19, Stelima <stelima@tilde.intitute> wrote:
    Il 04/12/2019 06:13, James Tomasino ha scritto:
    On 2019-11-17, scudo@tilde.black <scudo@tilde.black> wrote:
    On 2019-06-11, <nonlinear@radiofreqs.space> wrote:
    Does anybody regularly read or participate in Usenet? If so, which groups >>>> do you find are worthwhile?

    not that easy to find freely accessable newsservers nowdays,
    nearly anyone advertising one wants money,
    which in turn means I'm not gonna get on 'em

    I dug around and found my way back in a year or two ago and it was very
    sad. The whole place felt like a graveyard that had been overrun by spam
    weeds. There were small pockets of people posting here and there, but so
    many of the groups were empty. It reminded me of driving through a dead
    steel town in the US. Blech.

    There are specialized newsgroups active, with little spam and trolls.
    Sure thay are little known so it is "security by obscurity" but for now
    it works.
    I follow some of them loosely.

    comp.misc, misc.news.internet.discuss, and sci.misc together make up a
    decent community that escaped Slashdot in 2014. No spam really.

    As for servers, I find albasani a bit overloaded and slow. Check out solani.net/solani.org for a good alternative.
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  • From cookie monster@cookie@mon.ster to tilde.meta on Wed Apr 20 01:09:44 2022
    On 10/27/21 20:46, Retrograde wrote:

    As for servers, I find albasani a bit overloaded and slow. Check out solani.net/solani.org for a good alternative.

    Free Usenet access at https://news.aioe.org has been going strong for a
    long time. It's a little-known gem.

    cookie monster
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  • From ffuentes@ffuentes@texto-plano.xyz to tilde.meta on Sat May 28 17:35:37 2022
    El 20-04-22 a las 02:09, cookie monster escribió:
    On 10/27/21 20:46, Retrograde wrote:

    As for servers, I find albasani a bit overloaded and slow.  Check out
    solani.net/solani.org for a good alternative.

    Free Usenet access at https://news.aioe.org has been going strong for a
    long time. It's a little-known gem.

    cookie monster

    I've subscribed to aioe and eternal-september but I don't know very well
    what to read
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  • From f6k@f6k@huld.re to tilde.meta on Sun Jun 19 12:00:24 2022
    hello,

    On 2022-05-28, ffuentes <ffuentes@texto-plano.xyz> wrote:
    I've subscribed to aioe and eternal-september but I don't know very well what to read

    it depends on what you want to read. to help you start, here's a
    selection of the groups i follow:

    alt.folklore.computers -> full of retrocomputers enthusiasts alt.os.linux.slackware
    alt.os.free-dos
    alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst -> a coffeehouse (found in tilde.meta iirc) comp.infosystems.gopher
    comp.infosystems.gemini
    comp.sys.raspberry-pi
    comp.misc -> discussions related to general computing
    gnu.emacs.help
    rec.arts.sf.tv
    rec.arts.sf.written
    rec.arts.movies.current-films
    rec.arts.movies.international
    rec.food.cooking -> very crowded but full of good recipes
    rec.games.backgammon
    rec.games.chess.misc
    rec.games.roguelike.nethack

    hope that'll help you diging in!

    -f6k
    --
    ~{,_,"> huld.re <",_,}~
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