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  • Re: A few notes on porting Tcl/Tk 8.6 =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=86=92?= 9

    From Rich@21:1/5 to Mark Summerfield on Tue Jun 10 13:38:34 2025
    Mark Summerfield <[email protected]> wrote:
    PS My ISP has now stopped supporting newsgroup access.

    Then sign up for an Eternal September account: https://www.eternal-september.org/

    And a few years ago Google stopped supporting them.

    That was actually a good thing, because 99.8% of the SPAM posts on
    Usenet were coming from Google.

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  • From Helmut Giese@21:1/5 to Rich on Tue Jun 10 17:29:25 2025
    Rich <[email protected]d> schrieb:

    Mark Summerfield <[email protected]> wrote:
    PS My ISP has now stopped supporting newsgroup access.

    Then sign up for an Eternal September account: >https://www.eternal-september.org/

    And a few years ago Google stopped supporting them.

    That was actually a good thing, because 99.8% of the SPAM posts on
    Usenet were coming from Google.

    I can second this: For quite some years now I have an account with eternal-september and in all this time there were at most a handful of time-outs which usually were gone after a short while. And it is a
    friendly service: you sign up and you never hear of them again.
    Helmut

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  • From Ashok@21:1/5 to Mark Summerfield on Thu Jun 12 16:52:53 2025
    On 6/12/2025 12:36 PM, Mark Summerfield wrote:

    Wouldn't it be a good idea to update the page: https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/
    to drop the mentions of Google for the newsgroup and provide a link to eternal-september?

    It would, and now done along with other stale information.

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  • From Rich@21:1/5 to Mark Summerfield on Thu Jun 12 14:28:03 2025
    Mark Summerfield <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:29:25 +0200, Helmut Giese wrote:

    Rich <[email protected]d> schrieb:
    Mark Summerfield <[email protected]> wrote:
    PS My ISP has now stopped supporting newsgroup access.

    Then sign up for an Eternal September account: >>>https://www.eternal-september.org/

    And a few years ago Google stopped supporting them.

    I can second this: For quite some years now I have an account with
    eternal-september and in all this time there were at most a handful of
    time-outs which usually were gone after a short while. And it is a
    friendly service: you sign up and you never hear of them again. Helmut

    I am now using eternal-september.

    Wouldn't it be a good idea to update the page: https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/
    to drop the mentions of Google for the newsgroup and provide a link to eternal-september?

    The wiki is end-user-editable. You can make the appropriate change
    yourself.

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  • From Harald Oehlmann@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 15 18:50:19 2025
    Am 12.06.2025 um 16:28 schrieb Rich:
    Mark Summerfield <[email protected]> wrote:
    On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:29:25 +0200, Helmut Giese wrote:

    Rich <[email protected]d> schrieb:
    Mark Summerfield <[email protected]> wrote:
    PS My ISP has now stopped supporting newsgroup access.

    Then sign up for an Eternal September account:
    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    And a few years ago Google stopped supporting them.

    I can second this: For quite some years now I have an account with
    eternal-september and in all this time there were at most a handful of
    time-outs which usually were gone after a short while. And it is a
    friendly service: you sign up and you never hear of them again. Helmut

    I am now using eternal-september.

    Wouldn't it be a good idea to update the page:
    https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/
    to drop the mentions of Google for the newsgroup and provide a link to
    eternal-september?

    The wiki is end-user-editable. You can make the appropriate change
    yourself.

    Sorry, Rich, this is not on the Wiki.
    But Ashok has edited the page!
    Thanks a lot!
    Harald

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  • From Colin Macleod@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 16 08:20:22 2025
    Alan Grunwald <[email protected]> posted:

    On 12/06/2025 08:06, Mark Summerfield wrote:

    Wouldn't it be a good idea to update the page: https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/
    to drop the mentions of Google for the newsgroup and provide a link to eternal-september?
    +1

    Perhaps it's worth mentioning again that if you can't or would rather not install an NNTP client, you can get access through my web interface at: https://newsgrouper.org/comp.lang.tcl

    --
    Colin Macleod ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ https://cmacleod.me.uk

    Warning: Gumption level low, top-up when possible!

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