On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:05:08AM -0700, SJS wrote: > > There is a very wide range of subjects and most is not sex related. > > Personally I prefer Google Groups. > > Google groups is widely despised on Usenet. Its interface is > confusing, given the rate at which otherwise nominally intelligence > and competent people post inappropriate things in bone-headed manners. > > > Google Groups has a fairly friendly > > interface plus you don't have to download all the messages to your > > machine. > > Perhaps you should look into software called "newsreaders". Usenet > does not require that you set up your own server. It's P2P between > the servers and client-server to the end-application. It's one of > the original P2P networks.
I've given up on Usenet. I refuse to pay more for Usenet on top of what I'm already paying my ISP, and every news server that I have access to (either because it's free or because it's what one of my ISPs provides) sucks... they are all unusably slow, full of garbage groups, poorly maintained (if at all), and it is impossible to find anyone who cares about them. News is almost always outsourced... the ISP can't help you because they don't manage the news server, and the news provider won't help you because you aren't their customer... the ISP is. It's a shame, but I've learned to cope. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
