BTW and OT:
Hi fellows, what do you think about using a different board/group/BB?
IMHO this google groups are realy uncomfortable.
On 12/23/21 4:31 AM, B419 wrote:
BTW and OT:
Hi fellows, what do you think about using a different board/group/BB?
IMHO this google groups are realy uncomfortable.
This is not a "Google group," it's a Usenet newsgroup. That means it's a fully distributed bulletin board, and Google Groups is just one way to
access it.
For example, I use Thunderbird as my client and eternal-september.org as
my NNTP server; there are lots of other clients, including GNUS in
emacs, and lots of other NNTP servers carrying the various groups.
The worst thing to do to a community is to migrate it to a "web forum"
or "web chat" without an email or news gateway, because then only people
who like visiting that type of forum in a web browser would participate. Usenet clients generally provide a far superior experience, and Usenet's distributed nature ensures that what people say actually gets archived properly.
-- Chris
Yes I knew this, but I have not found a working newsserver.
eternal-september.org seems very stable to me, and I have used it for
years.
As per the title, on the off chance that anyone has one and is looking to part with it.
Cheers,
Andrew
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