Hello, folk of Usenet.
I have ever dreamed of joining this magnific network. After
downloading Pan, however, and trying some free "Usenet" servers, I am
pretty frustrated: I have not found a server which fully implements
the RFCs for free, for most proposals are about downloading binaries
(which are not the objective of this system). XSUsenet, for example,
does not respect cancel and rmvgroup messages, nor it accepts posting.
What I am looking for is to use the true Usenet, for discussions and knowledge, according to the specifications and authorities of the Big
8 (alt.* is not truly necessary); I have no problem if the message
retention is only one month, provided I am able to enjoy all the functionality. Then, I ask you, here from these goddamned Google
Groups: by which means (even if extremely complex) may I access
properly at least the last month of the Usenet and answer it, just
like paying members do?
As I do not know how to crosspost from Google Groups, I may have to
post it some more times.
Respectfully, Lucas S. A. Castro, from Brazil.
Lucas S. A. Castro <lucassebastiao2010@gmail.com> wrote:
What I am looking for is to use the true Usenet, for discussions and knowledge, according to the specifications and authorities of the Big 8 (alt.* is not truly necessary); I have no problem if the message
retention is only one month, provided I am able to enjoy all the functionality.
Your message has extremely long lines. (snip)
Kathy Morgan <kmorgan@spamcop.net> wrote:
Lucas S. A. Castro <lucassebastiao2010@gmail.com> wrote:
What I am looking for is to use the true Usenet, for discussions
and knowledge, according to the specifications and authorities of
the Big 8 (alt.* is not truly necessary); I have no problem if the
message retention is only one month, provided I am able to enjoy
all the functionality.
Your message has extremely long lines. (snip)
I should have waited to comment; your post with Pan looks very nice.
On 2016-06-06, Kathy Morgan <kmorgan@spamcop.net> wrote:
Kathy Morgan <kmorgan@spamcop.net> wrote:
Your message has extremely long lines. (snip)
I should have waited to comment; your post with Pan looks very nice.
Perhaps Pan automatically wraps long lines to fit your 'window' whereas MacSoup doesn't?
Slrn can wrap long lines to the window, but has to be given a manual
command to do it. Slrn has no text editor of its own but the one I use
with it (Vim) can wrap long lines and automatically add the necessary email/usenet > quotes at the start of lines of quoted text if necessary,
so that when I remember I can format my replies neatly regardless of the
line length in the article I'm replying to.
Google Groups does produce annoyingly unformatted paragraphs unless the
user deliberately inserts a 'return' manually at sane points. Their
user interface seems to hide this defect.
What I am looking for is to use the true Usenet, for discussions and knowledge, according to the specifications and authorities of the Big 8 (alt.* is not truly necessary); I have no problem if the message
retention is only one month, provided I am able to enjoy all the functionality.
Welcome to usenet :))
The newsgroup for discussing free news-servers is alt.free.newsservers
but sadly the signal to noise ratio there is very poor these days.
'Eternal-September' is widely used and is free, and seems to work very
well. See <http://www.eternal-september.org/>.
'Albasani' is also free and has a good reputation; see <http://albasani.net/>.
'Datemas' costs 5 Euros a year <http://news.datemas.de/> and works very
well.
'Individual' costs 10 Euros a year <http://individual.net/> and is
probably the best of the text-only news servers.
Some ISPs still include a news-server as part of their normal service.
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