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Is there a standard way to get Usenet access these days?
by disposekinetics 6y ago
Is there a standard way to get Usenet access these days?
- mnd999 6y agoNNTP is a standard. I use eternal-september.
- rleigh 6y agoI joined a couple of years back, but came away disappointed. All the groups I followed 20 years back are pale shadows of their former selves, filled with spam. And most of those were big in the day and included the comp.lang.c|c++ and a few of the comp.os groups. There's still a need for usenet, and I'd love to participate if there was anyone worth talking to. But it needs fixing first.
- cratermoon 6y ago> filled with spam I was there for Canter & Siegel https://www.wired.com/1999/04/the-spam-that-started-it-all/ https://www.wired.com/1999/04/the-spam-that-started-it-all/ My first usenet post, sometime in the late 80s, was in a discussion about a possible future "digital newspaper"
- pferde 6y agocomp.misc is still going strong. It has been "taken over" by people running away from Slashdot when it got "corporatized" some years back, and has some interesting discussions from time to time.