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    From rugxulo@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 24 22:29:29 2023
    I realize this is a bit of a silly question, but since Modula-2 and Oberon are closely related, I figure I'd ask here.

    What happened to news://comp.lang.oberon ??

    I think it still exists, but it hasn't shown up (for me, in Google Groups) in ages, and I don't know why.

    "Banned content warning
    comp.lang.oberon has been identified as containing spam, malware, or other malicious content."

    Sounds unlikely. Worse is that there's no one to ask officially, no way to find out for sure. So I keep wondering and wanting to ask *someone*.

    Any ideas?

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  • From Chris Burrows@21:1/5 to rugxulo on Thu May 25 22:03:16 2023
    On Thursday, May 25, 2023 at 2:59:30 PM UTC+9:30, rugxulo wrote:
    I realize this is a bit of a silly question, but since Modula-2 and Oberon are closely related, I figure I'd ask here.

    What happened to news://comp.lang.oberon ??

    I think it still exists, but it hasn't shown up (for me, in Google Groups) in ages, and I don't know why.

    "Banned content warning
    comp.lang.oberon has been identified as containing spam, malware, or other malicious content."

    Sounds unlikely. Worse is that there's no one to ask officially, no way to find out for sure. So I keep wondering and wanting to ask *someone*.

    Any ideas?

    See the related posts and ensuing discussions in 2022 on the ETH Oberon Mailing list:

    [Oberon] Is anyone here a moderator or admin of comp.lang.oberon? https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2022/016270.html

    Oberon] Archive of comp.lang.oberon https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2022/016472.html

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  • From Paul Attryde@21:1/5 to rugxulo on Fri May 26 07:42:31 2023
    On 2023-05-25 01:29, rugxulo wrote:
    I realize this is a bit of a silly question, but since Modula-2 and Oberon are closely related, I figure I'd ask here.

    What happened to news://comp.lang.oberon ??

    I think it still exists, but it hasn't shown up (for me, in Google Groups) in ages, and I don't know why.


    Nothing happened to it, it's still there.
    That's what you get for using google instead of a news server.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=@21:1/5 to Brian Knoblauch on Sat Dec 30 11:39:33 2023
    On 12/30/2023 11:36 AM, Brian Knoblauch wrote:
    On Friday, May 26, 2023 at 7:42:39 AM UTC-4, Paul Attryde wrote:
    That's what you get for using google instead of a news server.

    With google groups ending Usenet access, any recommendations on a real news server to use instead?

    Many use Eternal September - see https://www.eternal-september.org/ for details.

    Arne

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  • From SugarBug@21:1/5 to Brian Knoblauch on Sun Dec 31 01:37:12 2023
    On Sat, 30 Dec 2023 08:36:36 -0800 (PST)
    Brian Knoblauch <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Friday, May 26, 2023 at 7:42:39 AM UTC-4, Paul Attryde wrote:
    That's what you get for using google instead of a news server.

    With google groups ending Usenet access, any recommendations on a
    real news server to use instead?


    List of free Usenet servers: <https://sybershock.com/#usenet>.

    Share this link with other soon-to-be google groups refugees.

    --
    [email protected] | sybershock.com | talk.politics.crypto

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=@21:1/5 to Brian Knoblauch on Sun Dec 31 13:44:26 2023
    On 12/31/2023 1:15 PM, Brian Knoblauch wrote:
    On Sunday, December 31, 2023 at 2:36:10 AM UTC-5, SugarBug wrote:
    List of free Usenet servers: <https://sybershock.com/#usenet>.

    I did get signed up with eternal-september.org, but am still in the process of finding a
    client application. I was planning on using slrn, but apparently it
    does not support the required authentication...

    ThunderBird works with E-S.

    Arne

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  • From OrangeFish@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 1 13:07:06 2024
    On 2023-12-31 13:44, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
    On 12/31/2023 1:15 PM, Brian Knoblauch wrote:
    On Sunday, December 31, 2023 at 2:36:10 AM UTC-5, SugarBug wrote:
    List of free Usenet servers: <https://sybershock.com/#usenet>.

                                           I did get signed up with
    eternal-september.org, but am still in the process of finding a
    client application.  I was planning on using slrn, but apparently it
    does not support the required authentication...

    ThunderBird works with E-S.

    Arne

    Please consider donations to Eternal September. Since the Google trash
    spout was closed, they have received over 3000 new subscribers.

    OF

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  • From OrangeFish@21:1/5 to Brian Knoblauch on Wed Feb 14 11:46:01 2024
    On 2024-02-14 08:00, Brian Knoblauch wrote:
    Oddly the only comp.lang group I managed to find through Eternal September was comp.lang.go. Very strange.

    That is strange. I subscribe to 10 groups in comp.lang.* via Eternal September. What reader are you using?

    OF

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  • From OrangeFish@21:1/5 to Brian Knoblauch on Sat Feb 17 14:39:53 2024
    On 2024-02-14 15:12, Brian Knoblauch wrote:
    On Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 11:46:04 AM UTC-5, OrangeFish wrote:
    On 2024-02-14 08:00, Brian Knoblauch wrote:
    Oddly the only comp.lang group I managed to find through Eternal September was comp.lang.go. Very strange.
    That is strange. I subscribe to 10 groups in comp.lang.* via Eternal
    September. What reader are you using?

    OF

    That's with Thunderbird.

    I tested a small handful of clients both GNU/Linux and Windows and that's the only one I could get to connect, but unfortunately I have that oddity of only seeing that one comp.lang group.

    What are others using successfully? Anyone running OpenIndiana? As a Solaris guy from back in the day I'm wondering if that would include a better client?

    This is getting really off-topic: I just built tin-2.6.3 on Solaris
    11.3/Sparc and I have no problem connecting with
    news.eternal-september.org. I can see comp.lang.oberon.

    OF

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Mar 1 18:37:57 2024
    On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:46:01 -0500, OrangeFish
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    On 2024-02-14 08:00, Brian Knoblauch wrote:
    Oddly the only comp.lang group I managed to find through
    Eternal September was comp.lang.go. Very strange.

    That is strange. I subscribe to 10 groups in comp.lang.* via Eternal September. What reader are you using?

    [answered as Thunderbird, but in a message with insanely long quoted
    lines I can't requote properly; I think that's also a googleism]

    Are you sure your username&password are set (correctly)? I've seen
    reports e-s directory doesn't work right if you aren't logged-in.

    I use e-s via Forte Agent (duh, my headers say so) and get lots of
    comp.lang.*.

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  • From Bernhard@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 27 09:16:24 2024
    BTW, a browsable archive of comp.lang.oberon can be found here:

    https://www.usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=comp.lang.oberon

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