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  • Re: Doing away with this page?

    From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Dec 29 06:07:14 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Ed Rush <[email protected]> wrote:
    You've all seen the note atop this page: "... Google Groups will no
    longer support new Usenet content. ..." Will there be a replacement >somewhere, or will this forum just go poof into the night?

    Usenet will continue, it was never part of Google Groups, there was just
    a (subpar) Google Groups interface to it. You can continue to access
    Usenet with a free subscription from https://www.eternal-september.org/
    or a approx $15/year subscription (with more benefits) from news.individual.net

    You will need a client, for example thunderbird (free) to go with your subscription.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Ted Nolan on Fri Dec 29 19:43:13 2023
    On 2023-12-29 06:07:14 +0000, [email protected] (Ted Nolan said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Ed Rush <[email protected]> wrote:

    You've all seen the note atop this page: "... Google Groups will no
    longer support new Usenet content. ..." Will there be a replacement
    somewhere, or will this forum just go poof into the night?

    Usenet will continue, it was never part of Google Groups,

    Yep, and Usenet was around 20 years before Google even existed. :-)
    (I don't know when this particular newsgroup was created.)



    there was just a (subpar) Google Groups interface to it. You can
    continue to access Usenet with a free subscription from https://www.eternal-september.org/
    or a approx $15/year subscription (with more benefits) from news.individual.net

    You will need a client, for example thunderbird (free) to go with your subscription.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to Your Name on Fri Dec 29 10:48:55 2023
    On 12/29/2023 1:43 AM, Your Name wrote:
    On 2023-12-29 06:07:14 +0000, [email protected] (Ted Nolan said:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Ed Rush  <[email protected]> wrote:

    You've all seen the note atop this page: "... Google Groups will no
    longer support new Usenet content. ..." Will there be a replacement
    somewhere, or will this forum just go poof into the night?

    Usenet will continue, it was never part of Google Groups,

    Yep, and Usenet was around 20 years before Google even existed.  :-)
    (I don't know when this particular newsgroup was created.)

    A CFD was posted in January of 1992:

    https://groups.google.com/g/rec.humor/c/CWK8EjT8m9k

    That was shortly before I first got on Usenet; the oldest post to RACS
    in my files is from March of 1993.

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism,
    their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility,
    their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.
    - Robertson Davies

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  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Dec 29 15:25:05 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Mark Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 12/29/2023 1:07 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    or a approx $15/year subscription (with more benefits) from
    news.individual.net

    It's been 10 euros/year for as long as I've been using it.


    Yeah, I took a guess at the exchange to dollars -- I forget exactly
    how it shook out last time I renewed.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 29 10:21:26 2023
    On 12/29/2023 1:07 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    or a approx $15/year subscription (with more benefits) from news.individual.net

    It's been 10 euros/year for as long as I've been using it.

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism,
    their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility,
    their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.
    - Robertson Davies

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Freezer@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 30 21:59:27 2023
    If I don't reply to this Ted Nolan <tednolan> post, the
    terroists win.

    In article
    <[email protected]>, Ed
    Rush <[email protected]> wrote:
    You've all seen the note atop this page: "... Google Groups
    will no longer support new Usenet content. ..." Will there be
    a replacement somewhere, or will this forum just go poof into
    the night?

    Usenet will continue, it was never part of Google Groups,
    there was just a (subpar) Google Groups interface to it. You
    can continue to access Usenet with a free subscription from https://www.eternal-september.org/ or a approx $15/year
    subscription (with more benefits) from news.individual.net

    You will need a client, for example thunderbird (free) to go
    with your subscription.

    I've been using Xnews ever since Google destroyed Deja News. Still
    works great, even if it hasn't had an update in 20 years.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Ted Nolan @21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Dec 31 05:41:46 2023
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Freezer <[email protected]> wrote:
    If I don't reply to this Ted Nolan <tednolan> post, the
    terroists win.

    In article
    <[email protected]>, Ed
    Rush <[email protected]> wrote:
    You've all seen the note atop this page: "... Google Groups
    will no longer support new Usenet content. ..." Will there be
    a replacement somewhere, or will this forum just go poof into
    the night?

    Usenet will continue, it was never part of Google Groups,
    there was just a (subpar) Google Groups interface to it. You
    can continue to access Usenet with a free subscription from
    https://www.eternal-september.org/ or a approx $15/year
    subscription (with more benefits) from news.individual.net

    You will need a client, for example thunderbird (free) to go
    with your subscription.

    I've been using Xnews ever since Google destroyed Deja News. Still
    works great, even if it hasn't had an update in 20 years.

    Well, I use trn myself, but I got the feeling that the OP probably
    wasn't a Unix/Linux command line guy, so I wanted to suggest something
    that would work on Windows.
    --
    columbiaclosings.com
    What's not in Columbia anymore..

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 31 01:16:26 2023
    On 12/31/2023 12:41 AM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Freezer <[email protected]> wrote:
    If I don't reply to this Ted Nolan <tednolan> post, the terroists
    win.

    You will need a client, for example thunderbird (free) to go with
    your subscription.

    I've been using Xnews ever since Google destroyed Deja News.
    Still works great, even if it hasn't had an update in 20 years.

    Well, I use trn myself, but I got the feeling that the OP probably
    wasn't a Unix/Linux command line guy, so I wanted to suggest
    something that would work on Windows.

    I started with nn, then XVnews when I got a SPARCstation. (Later, had
    to fix Y2K issues in that one.) Since retiring and moving to a Windows
    laptop Thunderbird has been my email and Usenet client of choice.

    --
    Mark Jackson - https://mark-jackson.online/
    The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism,
    their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility,
    their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.
    - Robertson Davies

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Freezer@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 3 17:02:43 2024
    If I don't reply to this Ted Nolan <tednolan> post, the
    terroists win.

    In article
    <[email protected]>, Freezer <[email protected]> wrote:
    If I don't reply to this Ted Nolan <tednolan> post, the
    terroists win.

    In article
    <[email protected]>, Ed
    Rush <[email protected]> wrote:
    You've all seen the note atop this page: "... Google Groups
    will no longer support new Usenet content. ..." Will there
    be a replacement somewhere, or will this forum just go poof
    into the night?

    Usenet will continue, it was never part of Google Groups,
    there was just a (subpar) Google Groups interface to it.
    You can continue to access Usenet with a free subscription
    from https://www.eternal-september.org/ or a approx $15/year
    subscription (with more benefits) from news.individual.net

    You will need a client, for example thunderbird (free) to go
    with your subscription.

    I've been using Xnews ever since Google destroyed Deja News.
    Still works great, even if it hasn't had an update in 20
    years.

    Well, I use trn myself, but I got the feeling that the OP
    probably wasn't a Unix/Linux command line guy, so I wanted to
    suggest something that would work on Windows.

    Xnews is a Windows program. No installation either. Just unpack
    and go. I've tried to go with more updated clients (Like Pan,
    Agent and Thunderbird). I'm too used to Xnews' features and GUI.
    I'll probably use it until it finally stops working.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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