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Usenet is still there, I download TV shows from it all the time. The discussion forums are still there, too, but are completely overridden with spam. Most of th
by thesuitonym 4y ago
Usenet is still there, I download TV shows from it all the time. The discussion forums are still there, too, but are completely overridden with spam. Most of the public unix [0][1][2] servers have a Usenet server that federates with some other tilde servers, though not the wider usenet. I stumbled across a group called ALTEXXANET [3] that claims to have one, though I've not checked to see if it's still there.
What were some of the newsgroups you were interested in? When and why did you stop checking them?
[0] http://sdf.org/ http://sdf.org/
[1] https://tildeverse.org/ https://tildeverse.org/
[2] https://tilde.club/wiki/usenet-news.html https://tilde.club/wiki/usenet-news.html
[3] http://www.altexxanet.org/usenet.html http://www.altexxanet.org/usenet.html
- jdc0589 4y agoA friend was still using it for tv/movie download a couple years ago too
- NoGravitas 4y agoI use a feed with no binaries groups, which is how I like it. Most groups aren't exactly overrun with spam, they're just not very active. One or two spam messages a day looks like a lot when actual users are only posting one or two messages a week. But if a group is active (like comp.sys.raspberry-pi), you hardly notice the spam.