Surf Dance Chris <surfdancec@aol.com> wrote:
: This message comes up above the group when accessing through Google groups:
:

: ?Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new
: Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new
: content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of
: historical data will still be supported as it is done today.?

: How else can the group be accessed? I used to access RRC through aol
: groups, then moved to google groups once aol stopped supporting it.

It sure seems to me that Google is being remiss in not having a search
built for "how to access Usenet without Google Groups" or even a help page showing alternatives. Maybe that's coming.

For the moment, at least, I can recommend eternal-september.org . For info, check out their web site at www.eternal-september.org . Be sure to get that
www in there or the page won't load. There are other servers out there, including some that are not $free, and that's where you want to look if you
are looking for binaries groups in addition to the standard text
heirarchies. Since r.r-c is in rec.* it's going to be carried on just about
any server.

Finding a server you can read and post from is only half the battle. You
also need a newsreader. I'm a poor source of advice there, as I use rtin,
which is a tin variant that runs on a UNIX command line (TERMINAL window in MacOS...) and you might want something a little...prettier. I do have one
for iOS, NewsTapLite, which is decent, but I don't use it much because it
won't share a .newsrc file with rtin so that I can keep track of what I
have and haven't read. In fact that's one of the things I like about tin...because it runs on a command line, I can log in remotely to a command line session on my desktop machine and run it from there, and not have to
worry about my .newsrc getting out of sync.

(the .newsrc is the file that keeps track of what newsgroups you are
subscribed to, and more important, which messages you have already read)

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On Dec 14, 2023, Surf Dance Chris wrote
(in article<7d5fbc85-ce15-4495-a349-aa08ba04518en@googlegroups.com>):

This message comes up above the group when accessing through Google groups:

“Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of historical data will still be supported as it is done today.”

How else can the group be accessed? I used to access RRC through aol groups, then moved to google groups once aol stopped supporting it.

I use a server, news.individual.net, which costs 10 euro/year. (It’s based
in Germany, though I’m not.) I have always preferred using a local
newsreader client as opposed to Google, although I’m not that happy with
the newsreader I have right now. I am a Mac user and use Hogwasher, which is adequate at best; I still miss the defunct MT-Newswatcher, which did
everything I wanted it to and more.

--
Heather, the Carousel Rabbit

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I find eternal-september.org fine and use Mozilla Thunderbird for a
news reader. May not be fancy enuf for everyone but adequate for the few
groups I read. And since I use TB for mail as well the fact news fits in
to the interface like mail is a plus.

Bob

On 12/14/23 10:08 PM, Surf Dance Chris wrote:

This message comes up above the group when accessing through Google groups:

“Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of historical data will still be supported as

it is done today.”

How else can the group be accessed? I used to access RRC through aol groups, then moved to google groups once aol stopped supporting it.

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Interestinng article in SlashDot today on Usenet:


<https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/12/20/2147253/the-rise-and-fall-of-usenet>

Bob

On 12/15/23 9:07 AM, BobRahe wrote:

  I find eternal-september.org fine and use Mozilla Thunderbird for a
news reader. May not be fancy enuf for everyone but adequate for the few groups I read. And since I use TB for mail as well the fact news fits in
to the interface like mail is a plus.

Bob

On 12/14/23 10:08 PM, Surf Dance Chris wrote:

This message comes up above the group when accessing through Google
groups:

“Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new
Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new
content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of
historical data will still be supported as it is done today.”

How else can the group be accessed? I used to access RRC through aol
groups, then moved to google groups once aol stopped supporting it.

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On Dec 22, 2023, GodsOnSafari wrote
(in article<ba395638-b5b7-4d6b-879b-cb04aa5f476bn@googlegroups.com>):

On Friday, December 15, 2023 at 3:11:07 AM UTC-5, Richard Bannister wrote:

Welp, that's it for me. Not going to install and use a special piece of software for something that only has occasional new posts.

It was fun while it lasted.

I could be sad about it but I mean, at this point my interaction with RRC is that I flag lots of stuff as spam in the hopes it would lead to superior blocking of those posts as some kind of secret olive branch to the people still doing this stuff and wanting at least the hope of a community to be retained. It's sad, but plenty of other people moved on with nary a tear who had a lot more investment and involvement with the community that was built here.

I like knowing you’ve still been around, even if in silent mode!
--
Heather, the Carousel Rabbit

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