I been using eternal-september many years but haven't tried to subscribe
to a new group in a long time, until today. I think there are many fewer groups, and the ones I subscribed today didn't have any messages.
I was looking for a group about libreoffice or openoffice but there were
few groups, and no messages.
TIA Bill S.
OT: Has eternal-september got many fewer newsgroups than before?
I been using eternal-september many years but haven't tried to subscribe
to a new group in a long time, until today. I think there are many fewer groups, and the ones I subscribed today didn't have any messages.
I was looking for a group about libreoffice or openoffice but there were
few groups, and no messages.
TIA Bill S.
Just found out today, one has to hit the refresh button to see them all.
If you use thunderbird, the refresh only works for that ope session and
next time you will have to hit it again
That is not correct for my version of Thunderbird linux 68.10.0 (no, I don't update unless there is some reason I choose to do so).
The newsgroup list is in hostinfo.dat in the News dir in the profile. I recently refreshed my list Apr 6 and that is the date stamped on the file.
On Apr 6, 2023, bilsch01 wrote:
OT: Has eternal-september got many fewer newsgroups than before?
I been using eternal-september many years but haven't tried to subscribe
to a new group in a long time, until today. I think there are many fewer
groups, and the ones I subscribed today didn't have any messages.
I was looking for a group about libreoffice or openoffice but there were
few groups, and no messages.
TIA Bill S.
Eternal-September has fewer groups than before because it dropped all microsoft.* groups two months ago. There is an announcement on the www.eternal-september.org home page and a discussion thread in group eternal-september.support.
Dropping the microsoft.* groups has nothing to do with LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
LibreOffice discussion takes place on the LibreOffice Users mailing
list. See <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Users/Mailing_List>.
Usenet was in decline as a discussion medium from well before
LibreOffice was forked.
Eternal-September keeps messages for less than half a year (except in
de.* groups). Even if a group you seek existed back in Usenet's heyday,
there might no longer be any messages retained on Eternal-September.
Mike Easter wrote:
That is not correct for my version of Thunderbird linux 68.10.0 (no,
I don't update unless there is some reason I choose to do so).
The newsgroup list is in hostinfo.dat in the News dir in the profile.
I recently refreshed my list Apr 6 and that is the date stamped on the
file.
I also like the Enigmail add-on v/s of Tb better than those which
aren't, if I want/need to do something w/ clearsigned msg/s.
On Apr 6, 2023, bilsch01 wrote:
OT: Has eternal-september got many fewer newsgroups than before?
I been using eternal-september many years but haven't tried to subscribe
to a new group in a long time, until today. I think there are many fewer
groups, and the ones I subscribed today didn't have any messages.
I was looking for a group about libreoffice or openoffice but there were
few groups, and no messages.
TIA Bill S.
Eternal-September has fewer groups than before because it dropped all microsoft.* groups two months ago. There is an announcement on the www.eternal-september.org home page and a discussion thread in group eternal-september.support.
Dropping the microsoft.* groups has nothing to do with LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
LibreOffice discussion takes place on the LibreOffice Users mailing
list. See <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Users/Mailing_List>.
Usenet was in decline as a discussion medium from well before
LibreOffice was forked.
Eternal-September keeps messages for less than half a year (except in
de.* groups). Even if a group you seek existed back in Usenet's heyday,
there might no longer be any messages retained on Eternal-September.
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