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  • Re: OT: for those needing a NNTP server for newsgroups after Google

    From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Thu Feb 1 16:39:56 2024
    Sawfish <sawfish666@gmail.com> wrote:
    I had been using eternal september, which is free, but re-subscribed to
    XLNed yesterday. XLNed is a bit more reliable and flexible and easier to
    set up.

    https://www.eternal-september.org/

    https://www.xlned.com/en This cost me $29.16 US for one year. It is the
    XL Lite package, which is quite adequate for usenet social groups use. I
    see by my records that I've used them on and off since 2019.

    Eternal September is reliable. I do not know what you
    mean by "flexible" and "easier to set up". Can you
    explain?

    Eternal September was super easy to set up when I joined.
    I guess you just had to register via their website and
    that was it.

    The only downside I have come across is that the expiration
    time of messages is pretty short, but since the service
    is free, I really cannot complain. Someone must pay for
    the storage space and it is not me.

    Well, Eternal September also does not have binaries
    groups so if you want them, you must go elsewhere.

    br,
    KK

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to guypers on Thu Feb 1 17:56:47 2024
    guypers <gapp111@gmail.com> wrote:
    Work on iPads?

    I did some quick googling and I suppose
    that Mozilla Thunderbird is not available
    for iPad just now. It may be in the future.

    I then googled for "nntp ipad" and found
    NewsTap, but you have to pay $4.99 for it.

    It could be that there are free newsreaders
    for iPad, but I did not find any. Back in
    2014, they said there were none available.

    br,
    KK

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to jdeluise on Thu Feb 1 19:30:38 2024
    jdeluise <jdeluise@gmail.com> wrote:
    Rich content, attachments and HTML in discussion
    groups on usenet?! This is blasphemy.

    Agreed. All the discussions should be text only. If you
    need fancy characters, then UTF-8 will work for you.

    Even the binaries groups consist of 7-bit ASCII. Back
    in the 1990s, people used uuencoded text split in
    several messages. Everybody downloaded porn from
    alt.binaries.pictures.erotica and the like. That
    was before WWW existed or had porn sites.

    br,
    KK

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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Thu Feb 1 19:25:34 2024
    Sawfish <sawfish666@gmail.com> wrote:
    Once you register you had to configure a newsreader by identifying ET as
    the server. You will also have had to create/supply a password. It may
    be that you'll choose to save the password so that you don't have to
    enter it every time. I did/do.

    Of course you have to do all those things, but the same
    applies to configuring *any* client/server. I have used
    tin newsreader for nearly three decades now and it is very
    easy to configure.

    I'm saying that if you unsubscribe you'll not "see" rec.sport.tennis
    again until you find a way to re-enter the password. With Mozilla, the
    thing I had to do was to delete the account, reestablish a new account
    with all of the same parameters, and at that point you'll be prompted to
    make a password. If you save the password you won't have ent4r it every
    time, but again, if you ever unsubscribe you'll have to go through the
    whole thing.

    Very strange. I would definitely stay away from Thunderbird.
    If you run Linux, tin and slrn would be saner choices.

    br,
    KK

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