El día Monday, April 01, 2013 a las 08:13:12AM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió:
> > > I'm using since some years http://www.aioe.org/ which has no binary
> > > groups (i.e. no porn or warez) and a cache of 25 days. Just works.
> >
> > The remaining users of de.* often say they filter postings inj
El día Monday, April 01, 2013 a las 03:13:07AM +0200, Sabine Baer escribió:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:20:05PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I'm using since some years http://www.aioe.org/ which has no binary
> > groups (i.e. no porn or warez) and a cache of 25 days. Just work
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 02:12:06PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
[...]
> Back then you had to have brains to be on the net, now everyone is
> web 2.0, and they're satisfied with ridiculous web forums. Any
> brains today are all but forced to use them because the population
> is so slim anywhere else. Us
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:20:05PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
[...]
> I'm using since some years http://www.aioe.org/ which has no binary
> groups (i.e. no porn or warez) and a cache of 25 days. Just works.
The remaining users of de.* often say they filter postings injected
over this server
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> There are several free public USENET text servers (no binary
> groups), granted it's nothing like the days when every ISP ran one but
> there are still several about (eternal-september.com is one of the
> biggest). There are als
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400
grarpamp wrote:
> Usenet was great. 'Was' because it really isn't there anymore.
> Servers used to be widespread, you could use your ISP, your school,
> your work, and failing that plenty of free ones even if for the
> asking, even some public/open ones. Now the
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Joshua Isom wrote:
> On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>>
>> Now there are very few, if any, free servers
>>>
>>
>> There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet,
>> nevertheles
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:37:43 -0500, Joshua Isom wrote:
> On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>>
>>> Now there are very few, if any, free servers
>>
>> There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet,
>> nevertheless I
El día Wednesday, March 27, 2013 a las 03:37:43PM -0500, Joshua Isom escribió:
> The last ISP I knew had usenet complained about the bandwidth and
> storage required. They had a dedicated satellite instead of using their
> backbone, and only cached a couple days. All the porn and warez has the
On 3/27/2013 3:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
Now there are very few, if any, free servers
There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet,
nevertheless I prefer the free one as it's faster and more reliable.
The last ISP I
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:12:06 -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> Now there are very few, if any, free servers
There are still free news servers available. My ISP bundles usenet,
nevertheless I prefer the free one as it's faster and more reliable.
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Usenet was great. 'Was' because it really isn't there anymore.
Servers used to be widespread, you could use your ISP, your school,
your work, and failing that plenty of free ones even if for the
asking, even some public/open ones. Now there are very few, if any,
free servers and likely none are pub
On 3/27/2013 6:55, Quartz wrote:
>> Younger generations
>
> In my experience, few people under the age of 30 have used usenet, and
> no one under the age of 20 has even heard of it.
>
19 year old usenet subscriber reporting in!
I subscribe to ASR and c.p.t.ntp which are the only decent newsgrou
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This is a bit OT, but maybe some of you FreeBSD folks are as well
> affected like me and/or have any answer or comments...
>
> In the past I've used a lot the so called newsgroups, even running my own
> inn
> news server for o
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Quartz wrote:
>> Younger generations
>
>
> In my experience, few people under the age of 30 have used usenet, and no
> one under the age of 20 has even heard of it.
>
It's interesting to see all the re-inventions that occur all the time.
It's basically the same st
Younger generations
In my experience, few people under the age of 30 have used usenet, and
no one under the age of 20 has even heard of it.
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it has a certain smooth-brained appeal
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:49:25 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Where have all the people gone?
They're using wibbly wobbly web wonder services, unless
they've been placed in a retirement castle. :-)
> Is USENET coming to its end?
I think it's just changing audiences. A common means of
USENET toda
Is USENET coming to its end?
Yes, for better or worse. It's been a slow downward spiral since the
late 90's. I can't speak for other countries, but in the US the majority
of ISPs started dropping access as a cost cutting measure since your
average layman didn't really understand or use it. Yo
Hello,
This is a bit OT, but maybe some of you FreeBSD folks are as well
affected like me and/or have any answer or comments...
In the past I've used a lot the so called newsgroups, even running my own inn
news server for our company and nn as the newsreader. I liked to post
there technical (and
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