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  • Re: Google is dropping support for posting on Usenet groups; what are w

    From Matthew R. Wilson@21:1/5 to Maury Pepper on Sun Dec 17 01:36:26 2023
    On 2023-12-17, Maury Pepper <mpepper%ieee.org@gtempaccount.com> wrote:
    On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 6:42:59 AM UTC-6, Jens wrote:
    There's not much traffic in this group anymore. In my opinion we should move to the discord-channel.

    I would prefer a neutral site like Google Groups rather than a vendor site. comp.lang.mumps has had such a long life, and it will continue to exist even if another group is created elsewhere. I've been exploring various NNTP/Newsgroup readers/clients.
    There are some free and paid choices, but not a lot. I'm curious what others have been using if not Google and how they rate it.

    I use Eternal September (http://www.eternal-september.org/) as my NNTP
    provider and slrn (https://slrn.info/) as my client. Works great! Still
    much better than any web-based forums, and Discord (aside from being proprietary) is way too transitory; it's much closer to IRC than
    newsgroups.

    -Matthew

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  • From Rod Dorman@21:1/5 to mpepper%ieee.org@gtempaccount.com on Sun Dec 17 06:23:54 2023
    In article <0a76594a-5e70-4dff-bbac-26d1a77d1837n@googlegroups.com>,
    Maury Pepper <mpepper%ieee.org@gtempaccount.com> wrote:
    On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 6:42:59 AM UTC-6, Jens wrote:
    There's not much traffic in this group anymore. In my opinion we should move to the discord-channel.

    I would prefer a neutral site like Google Groups rather than a vendor site. comp.lang.mumps has had such a long life, and it will
    continue to exist even if another group is created elsewhere. I've been exploring various NNTP/Newsgroup readers/clients. There are
    some free and paid choices, but not a lot. I'm curious what others have been using if not Google and how they rate it.

    I've got a UNIX account (panix.com) that I SSH into and use a Usenet newsreader

    --
    -- Rod -- rod.dorman.esq(at)gmail(dot)com

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