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Slightly off-topic, but is there still much NNTP use out there other than piracy related? I was a heavy NNTP user once upon a time, but all the public groups I
by stinkytaco 12y ago
Slightly off-topic, but is there still much NNTP use out there other than piracy related? I was a heavy NNTP user once upon a time, but all the public groups I once used seem to be overrun by spam and private ones seem to have gone in favor of email. I would expect there's a quite a few private servers out there to warrant continual updating in a program like emacs.
- edavis 12y agoI use NNTP to follow a handful of development mailing lists via gmane.org.
- callahad 12y agoI prefer to consume mailing lists via Gmane's NNTP gateway: http://gmane.org/ http://gmane.org/ It's a surprisingly nice experience. You can really easily pull archives, nntp clients tend to handle threading well, etc.
- thristian 12y agoRelevant to this subthread, Gmane's maintainer is also the maintainer of Gnus, so the Gmane web UI is (I'm told) surprisingly familiar for Gnus users.
- pjmlp 12y agoD development forums are NNTP, although there is a forum as well. I really prefer the keyboard navigation and all the niceties offered by Thunderbird than the web groups interface, each with its own set of allowed actions, mostly without keyboard navigation.
- pyviennacl 12y agoSure: I use NNTP for my RSS/Atom feeds and my mailing lists, using the excellent gateways at http://gmane.org/ http://gmane.org/ and http://gwene.org/ http://gwene.org/
- zafiro17 12y agoYes! There's a healthy community at comp.misc where we post stuff like this article, and sci.misc where we post non comp stuff. In fact you'll see a healthy correlation between articles posted to Ycombinator that are subsequently posted and discussed on comp.misc and now sci.misc. Good place to get a free Usenet account is Solani.org now that Albasani and AIOE are somewhat over-subscribed.