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I loved Usenet back in the day, but I sort of wonder why organisations keep their servers running. I struggle to find any active newsgroups these days. Weirdly

I loved Usenet back in the day, but I sort of wonder why organisations keep their servers running. I struggle to find any active newsgroups these days. Weirdly enough spam still hits some of the groups.

WesolyKubeczek 1y ago
And conspiracy chain mails still pondering on whether or not 9/11 was an inside job. I joined usenet recently to see how the things were, and it had some serious ghost town vibes.
magicalhippo 1y ago
Yeah it died off sadly. Had so many good news discussions back then. Still miss the buzz of downloading a new batch of messages. I used Gmane[1] to access mailing lists as newsgroups, which I've always thought was a much better fit. Alas as with all good things that was shut down also. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane
- clircle 1y ago
  News.gmane.io is up. I use it daily to track a few projects.
  - magicalhippo 1y ago
    Ah, thanks. I knew there were issues, but somehow missed they'd resolved it. A great service, glad to see it alive and kicking!
    - pasc1878 1y ago
      They have not resolved the big issue. news.gmane.io has always worked. The issue is that the owner of that domain made a mistake and gave the control of the web frontend to someone else who just shut it down.
e12e 1y ago
The D programming language forum is using nntp: https://forum.dlang.org/help#about https://forum.dlang.org/help#about