This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
newsgroup using Google Groups.
Google will discontinue Groups in Feb 2024.
For those who do not know Usenet:
Usenet is a distributed communication system consisting of many servers. Google Groups is only one of them that closes down - other servers will
stay available, but people need to use another server to read and post
here.
There are alternatives to it
You need a newsreader and a news server (NNTP).
As an NNTP server, some free services exist where you can register: https://www.eternal-september.org/
https://solani.org/
https://www.i2pn2.org/
For using it, you need a newsreader.
Some examples are:
https://www.thunderbird.net
https://www.betterbird.eu/
https://claws-mail.org/
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
newsgroup using Google Groups.
Google will discontinue Groups in Feb 2024.
Let me contribute with Sylpheed. It's a pretty nice client.
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
I believe Claws Mail is actually based on Sylpheed.
On Monday, January 29, 2024 at 2:25:52=E2=80=AFAM UTC-8, Andy Burns wrote:
...as best as I can see, the number of people=20
who post here from G2 is very limited, perhaps only=20
=20
Robert Bernardo=20
and Lars Brinkhoff=20
I've been trying to find an easy way to access the groups.
D.J. wrote:
Marco Moock wrote:
Google will discontinue Groups in Feb 2024.
So what happens to the archives they said they would maintain ?
Nothing, the archives will remain, but won't grow with future usenet >postings.
Google groups will continue to exist, but the interchange to/from usenet >will cease.
NewsTap for iOS users. Works well for me. Available on the app store, if it isn’t free it’s very inexpensive and well worth it.
Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> wrote:
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:
This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
newsgroup using Google Groups.
Google will discontinue Groups in Feb 2024.
For those who do not know Usenet:
Usenet is a distributed communication system consisting of many servers. >>> Google Groups is only one of them that closes down - other servers will
stay available, but people need to use another server to read and post
here.
There are alternatives to it
You need a newsreader and a news server (NNTP).
As an NNTP server, some free services exist where you can register:
https://www.eternal-september.org/
https://solani.org/
https://www.i2pn2.org/
For using it, you need a newsreader.
Some examples are:
https://www.thunderbird.net
https://www.betterbird.eu/
https://claws-mail.org/
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Let me contribute with Sylpheed. It's a pretty nice client.
https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/
I believe Claws Mail is actually based on Sylpheed.
NewsTap for iOS users. Works well for me. Available on the app store, if it isn’t free it’s very inexpensive and well worth it.
I found an old account I once had on Astraweb (news.astraweb.com).
I've never been billed by them; there must be a free option.
Anyway, it's still working fine for me. They claim 4000 days
retention.
On 2024-01-30, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> wrote:
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:
This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
newsgroup using Google Groups.
Google will discontinue Groups in Feb 2024.
For those who do not know Usenet:
For a newsreader, I use slrn. Plain, text-only, and effective.
Eternal September, at least, expires articles after some period of
time (days? weeks?), so if I want to find something older I go to GG,
and possibly reply from there.
On 2024-01-31, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
On 2024-01-30, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> wrote:
Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> writes:
This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
newsgroup using Google Groups.
Google will discontinue Groups in Feb 2024.
For those who do not know Usenet:
For a newsreader, I use slrn. Plain, text-only, and effective.
Me Too.
I found an old account I once had on Astraweb (news.astraweb.com).
I've never been billed by them; there must be a free option.
Anyway, it's still working fine for me. They claim 4000 days
retention.
Charlie Gibbs wrote:
I found an old account I once had on Astraweb (news.astraweb.com).
I've never been billed by them; there must be a free option.
Anyway, it's still working fine for me. They claim 4000 days
retention.
I use Astraweb, paid $10 many years back (15?) for 5 GB's of traffic, or basically a lifetime reading text newsgroups. Been happy with them.
Charlie, perhaps you signed up for the $10 account way back. I know at
the time there didn't seem to be a free option.
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