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  • Re: New usenet viewer help

    From Idlehands@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 21 10:16:52 2024
    On 2024-01-21 6:54 a.m., Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin preparing? What is the best client and platform?

    I am a big fan of Thunderbird for my newsreader, have been for years.

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

    Eternal-September is my goto for a news server, it's free and the owner
    has done a lot of work to filter out the spam flood from Google Groups.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    He is also working on a web interface as well.


    --
    Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

    George Bernard Shaw

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Idlehands on Fri Jan 26 16:26:45 2024
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2024-01-21 6:54 a.m., Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin preparing?
    What is the best client and platform?

    I am a big fan of Thunderbird for my newsreader, have been for years.

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

    Eternal-September is my goto for a news server, it's free and the owner
    has done a lot of work to filter out the spam flood from Google Groups.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    He is also working on a web interface as well.


    I prefer Seamonkey to Thunderturd.

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  • From Idlehands@21:1/5 to Tony on Fri Jan 26 23:37:17 2024
    On 2024-01-26 2:26 p.m., Tony wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2024-01-21 6:54 a.m., Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin preparing?
    What is the best client and platform?

    I am a big fan of Thunderbird for my newsreader, have been for years.

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

    Eternal-September is my goto for a news server, it's free and the
    owner has done a lot of work to filter out the spam flood from Google
    Groups.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    He is also working on a web interface as well.


     I prefer Seamonkey to Thunderturd.


    Each to their own, not sure why people have to slag what others are
    happy with.

    --
    Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

    George Bernard Shaw

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Kerry Imming@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 30 14:27:04 2024
    On 1/21/2024 7:54 AM, Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin preparing? What is the best client and platform?

    I haven't reviewed this lately, but information on setting up
    Thunderbird is here:

    https://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php/Rec.games.pinball_Access_Methods

    - Kerry

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  • From BobLangelius@21:1/5 to Idlehands on Wed Feb 7 08:44:56 2024
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2024-01-21 6:54 a.m., Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin preparing?
    What is the best client and platform?

    I am a big fan of Thunderbird for my newsreader, have been for years.

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

    Eternal-September is my goto for a news server, it's free and the owner
    has done a lot of work to filter out the spam flood from Google Groups.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    He is also working on a web interface as well.


    I took the time to setup Seamonkey and eternal-September and i don't see
    much of the spam anymore. It's a PIA, but it's worth the time.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Idlehands@21:1/5 to BobLangelius on Wed Feb 7 17:34:54 2024
    On 2024-02-07 6:44 a.m., BobLangelius wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2024-01-21 6:54 a.m., Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin preparing?
    What is the best client and platform?

    I am a big fan of Thunderbird for my newsreader, have been for years.

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

    Eternal-September is my goto for a news server, it's free and the
    owner has done a lot of work to filter out the spam flood from Google
    Groups.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    He is also working on a web interface as well.


    I took the time to setup Seamonkey and eternal-September and i don't see
    much of the spam anymore.  It's a PIA, but it's worth the time.

    Nice, glad it's working for you, Google was never my go to in the first
    place so I won't miss it or the spam that it brought.


    --
    Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

    George Bernard Shaw

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From BobLangelius@21:1/5 to Idlehands on Thu Feb 8 08:22:35 2024
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2024-02-07 6:44 a.m., BobLangelius wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2024-01-21 6:54 a.m., Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin
    preparing? What is the best client and platform?

    I am a big fan of Thunderbird for my newsreader, have been for years.

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

    Eternal-September is my goto for a news server, it's free and the
    owner has done a lot of work to filter out the spam flood from Google
    Groups.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    He is also working on a web interface as well.


    I took the time to setup Seamonkey and eternal-September and i don't
    see much of the spam anymore.  It's a PIA, but it's worth the time.

    Nice, glad it's working for you, Google was never my go to in the first
    place so I won't miss it or the spam that it brought.


    Agreed. Holy SH## I can have a dialog on RGP again. LOL

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From John Robertson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 8 10:36:36 2024
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    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to BobLangelius on Thu Aug 15 16:13:22 2024
    BobLangelius wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2024-01-21 6:54 a.m., Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin preparing?
    What is the best client and platform?

    I am a big fan of Thunderbird for my newsreader, have been for years.

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

    Eternal-September is my goto for a news server, it's free and the
    owner has done a lot of work to filter out the spam flood from Google
    Groups.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    He is also working on a web interface as well.


    I took the time to setup Seamonkey and eternal-September and i don't see
    much of the spam anymore.  It's a PIA, but it's worth the time.


    All I see is at least 99 percent spam. What happened to all the pinball players?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From John Robertson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 15 17:24:46 2024
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    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to John Robertson on Thu Sep 12 15:05:50 2024
    John Robertson wrote:
    On 2024-08-15 1:13 p.m., Tony wrote:
    BobLangelius wrote:
    Idlehands wrote:
    On 2024-01-21 6:54 a.m., Fordiesel69 wrote:
    With google pulling out in feb 22, 2024 how should i begin
    preparing? What is the best client and platform?

    I am a big fan of Thunderbird for my newsreader, have been for years.

    https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/

    Eternal-September is my goto for a news server, it's free and the
    owner has done a lot of work to filter out the spam flood from
    Google Groups.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    He is also working on a web interface as well.


    I took the time to setup Seamonkey and eternal-September and i don't
    see much of the spam anymore.  It's a PIA, but it's worth the time.


    All I see is at least 99 percent spam. What happened to all the
    pinball players?

    I've seen zero spam using e-t since Google shut down their user portal.

    Quite quiet - a bit too quiet, but maybe folks will come back or join us
    here once they realize the spam has gone.

    John :-#)#


    I can barely find a single post that isn't spam and I think that guy
    Cody Chun or Chung or whatever his last name is has been flooding this newsgor9up with spam constantly. There's a lot of jealous people on this newsgroup who wish they could play a pinball machine like me but every
    in their dreams it could never happen.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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