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  • [Newbie][Intro Post]Eternal September is Entering it's Thirty FirstYear

    From Singletona082@singletona082@ctrl-c.club to tilde.meta on Sun Aug 11 11:30:07 2024
    It Began in 1993 with AOL offering Usenet access and it hasn't stopped
    since then. Just because I'm more knowledgeable than the average User
    doesn't mean much when I'm fairly new to Usenet.

    https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.ctrl-c.club/~singletona082/zine/2023/september.gmi

    My only other simi substansive brush with Usenet or at least a
    usenet-like enviroment, as arguments will be made, was via Google Groups
    CR48 'group' as I'd gotten my mitts on one of those pre-release machines
    and that was how they fielded discussion. Inexact compared to here but
    that's the closest I had to the enviroment here has.

    Right now using thunderbird. Considering Claws, but I kinda wanna know
    if there's a good tutorial for a dedicated reader client that one of the
    tilde servers have, since having the programs on server feels more....
    Right? I dunno other than it has a diffrent feel than just using
    thunderbird.

    Anyway. Hi.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/
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  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Sun Aug 11 17:43:02 2024
    Singletona082 <singletona082@ctrl-c.club> writes:

    Right now using thunderbird. Considering Claws, but I kinda wanna know
    if there's a good tutorial for a dedicated reader client that one of
    the tilde servers have, since having the programs on server feels
    more.... Right?

    You mean a WWW front-end on a server or a classic news client like TIN,
    SLRN, (Emacs-)GNUS, ...?

    I dunno other than it has a diffrent feel than just using thunderbird.

    TB seems to be one of the major GUI news clients out there. Claws may
    be a good competitor. I only tried Evolution and it fails at being a
    good news reader.

    I don't think that the look and the TUI vs GUI question makes the
    distinction between good and not so good news readers. Check out the
    features.

    + Can it access multiple news servers?

    + Can it cancel and supersede (your) posts?

    + Is it usable only online or can downloaded messages be accessed
    without having an internet connection?

    There will be lots of points more to ask, but I'm kind of in heat stasis
    right now.

    Maybe dig a bit there?

    <https://news.software.readers.narkive.com/>
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    1. Hitchhiker 5: (101) "You just come along with me and have a good
    time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your
    ear."
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