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Two points completely unrelated between them: 1. A large part of the world completely ignored Usenet. ISPs began offering Net connectivity in my country in the
by sombragris 3y ago
Two points completely unrelated between them:
1. A large part of the world completely ignored Usenet. ISPs began offering Net connectivity in my country in the late 1990s, but then no one (IIRC) had an Usenet server or archive; and if they had one, it was largely unadvertised. Connecting to a NNTP server not offered by your ISP might be doable, but it could be a paid-for thing, not very easy and not very reliable. So, too many people around the world did not get into their Eternal September.
2. There are good NNTP clients (and free software ones). Claws Mail has good NNTP support and is actively developed, and this is just one example.