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Re: They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now

By Schlomo Goldberg on Sun Nov 17 06:34:58 2024

Latest reply by Schlomo Goldberg on Sun Nov 17 06:34:58 2024
PhD positions in Computational Linguistics, University of Manitoba

By Tristan Miller on Wed Nov 6 12:56:34 2024

Latest reply by Tristan Miller on Wed Nov 6 12:56:34 2024
Re: Article retention and archive search

By The Running Man on Wed Sep 4 04:25:43 2024

Latest reply by A1 on Tue Oct 1 16:18:13 2024
origin of the phrase "eternal september"

By D on Sat Sep 14 18:44:39 2024

Latest reply by D on Sat Sep 14 18:44:39 2024
Re: the best freeware newsreaders

By Silver Skull on Mon Jul 22 01:47:22 2024

Latest reply by The Running Man on Tue Sep 10 15:22:49 2024
If you were to design a netnews protocol today...

By George Musk on Wed Aug 7 14:32:01 2024

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Thu Sep 5 15:10:03 2024
Re: Usenet as social media [was:Re: If you were to design a netnews pro

By Anton Shepelev on Thu Aug 15 18:48:20 2024

Latest reply by Scott Dorsey on Wed Sep 4 11:40:04 2024
usenet group statistics

By validator on Sat Aug 24 19:43:48 2024

Latest reply by D on Tue Aug 27 17:03:52 2024
Usenet Newsgroups Part I - I find some Usenet Archives on CD-ROM

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Dec 17 12:09:33 2023

Latest reply by D on Sat Aug 24 12:39:35 2024
Trying to define Usenet by what it isn't (or should not be)

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Aug 11 15:17:40 2024

Latest reply by D on Sun Aug 11 17:26:49 2024
Regular expressions (regex)

By D on Sat Aug 10 20:25:50 2024

Latest reply by D on Sat Aug 10 20:25:50 2024
Re: Scoring rules - part 1

By George Musk on Sat Aug 10 07:05:49 2024

Latest reply by Steven M. O'Neill on Sat Aug 10 15:56:36 2024
Newsreader scoring

By D on Mon Aug 5 23:03:35 2024

Latest reply by D on Mon Aug 5 23:03:35 2024
40tude Dialog - Scoring/Actions Syntax

By D on Tue Jul 23 16:53:08 2024

Latest reply by D on Tue Jul 23 16:53:08 2024
MicroPlanet Gravity - Rules (part 1 of 3)

By D on Tue Jul 23 12:27:54 2024

Latest reply by D on Tue Jul 23 12:27:54 2024
Best mac app for reading and posting to newsgroups?

By Oriole on Sat Jun 8 18:15:57 2024

Latest reply by 6R1MR34P3R on Fri Jul 19 08:00:58 2024
Did Google Groups disconnect from newsgroups yet?

By Ant on Thu Feb 22 22:20:31 2024

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Sat Jul 13 14:00:04 2024
Sample .newsrc file for recommended newsgroups (UPDATED)

By Paul W. Schleck on Sat Oct 21 19:43:06 2023

Latest reply by sticks on Sat Jun 29 15:35:43 2024
Re: www.fidonet.org

By Nomen Nescio on Thu Apr 11 12:55:33 2024

Latest reply by Nomen Nescio on Thu Apr 11 12:55:33 2024
Re: https://www.fidonet.org/

By D on Wed Mar 27 10:14:05 2024

Latest reply by Grant Taylor on Mon Apr 1 18:47:21 2024
net.martyr

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 5 15:56:55 2023

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Sat Mar 16 03:00:02 2024
Re: social media disruption

By Retro Guy on Wed Mar 6 14:44:43 2024

Latest reply by D on Thu Mar 14 10:08:04 2024
Re: google groups users

By Steven M. O'Neill on Thu Feb 15 16:40:18 2024

Latest reply by D on Mon Feb 26 16:11:36 2024
in TB (ThunderBird), Middle-pane -- (unlike GG) there's no Message-coun

By Nomen Nescio on Mon Feb 26 00:58:33 2024

Latest reply by D on Mon Feb 26 02:04:00 2024
google groups final usenet article?

By D on Fri Feb 23 15:09:55 2024

Latest reply by D on Fri Feb 23 15:09:55 2024
Current top myths about Usenet

By Paul W. Schleck on Wed Feb 14 13:06:50 2024

Latest reply by rek2 hispagatos on Mon Feb 19 06:36:01 2024
Remembering the 90s flame wars: a simpler time of cyberbullying

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 26 17:20:53 2023

Latest reply by Scott Dorsey on Mon Dec 4 00:09:50 2023
The Early History of Usenet

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Dec 3 12:32:09 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Dec 3 12:32:09 2023
Two Takes on the Eternal September

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 26 17:13:41 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 26 17:13:41 2023
Self-regulation, Co-regulation, State Regulation

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 19 13:48:42 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 19 13:48:42 2023
Serial vs. Browsed, Reader-Friendly vs. Writer-Friendly

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 19 13:44:15 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 19 13:44:15 2023
Contrary to popular opinion, people with higher education level and cog

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 12 18:18:21 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 12 18:18:21 2023
It's only Usenet, no one dies (Well, except that time on rec.radio.cb .

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 12 18:09:41 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 12 18:09:41 2023
As time goes on, messaging technology on the internet (forums and messa

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 12 17:55:19 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 12 17:55:19 2023
apparently comp.arch, comp.lang.c++, and com.lang.fortran are now reado

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 12 17:46:47 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 12 17:46:47 2023
Re: What is Usenet?

By Sn!pe on Tue Nov 7 17:03:11 2023

Latest reply by Sn!pe on Fri Nov 10 15:05:21 2023
Online talk: "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original decentr

By Usenet Big-8 Management Board on Tue Mar 14 17:59:05 2023

Latest reply by Steve Bonine on Tue Nov 7 10:43:17 2023
How to fix the internet (MIT Technology Review)

By Paul W. Schleck on Sat Oct 21 19:59:40 2023

Latest reply by Scott Dorsey on Sun Nov 5 16:21:23 2023
A Few Thoughts on the Internet - The Brushpainter

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 5 16:14:34 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Nov 5 16:14:34 2023
Re: Poll: Why are you not a Usenet newsgroup moderator? (Warning: Sarca

By Andy Burns on Sat Oct 14 15:38:42 2023

Latest reply by Sn!pe on Sat Nov 4 11:32:50 2023
Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could f

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 29 15:37:04 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 29 15:37:04 2023
Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Cur

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 29 15:32:50 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 29 15:32:50 2023
The conventional wisdom about not feeding trolls makes online abuse wor

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 29 15:25:42 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 29 15:25:42 2023
Examples of Abuse

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 8 15:58:41 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sat Oct 21 20:42:53 2023
Why are we really here?

By pschleck on Sat Oct 21 19:35:07 2023

Latest reply by pschleck on Sat Oct 21 19:35:07 2023
"Usenet is a cesspool, a dung heap." - Patrick A. Townson, The UNIX-HAT

By Paul W. Schleck on Sat Oct 14 13:41:08 2023

Latest reply by Scott Dorsey on Sat Oct 14 16:48:05 2023
Poll: Why are you not a Usenet newsgroup moderator? (Warning: Sarcastic

By Paul W. Schleck on Sat Oct 14 13:46:46 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sat Oct 14 13:46:46 2023
Pushback on Usenet?

By Paul W. Schleck on Sat Oct 14 13:37:04 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sat Oct 14 13:37:04 2023
TSFAQ Links to Prof. Timo Salmi's FAQ materials (archive.org, 2012)

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 8 15:54:39 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Tue Oct 10 11:27:58 2023
Newsreader killfiles, the "Nunchucks of Usenet"

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 8 15:44:27 2023

Latest reply by rdh on Sun Oct 8 19:32:50 2023
Subject matter newsgroups: Threading the needle between arcanery and ko

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 8 15:48:39 2023

Latest reply by Mack A. Damia on Sun Oct 8 14:06:20 2023
Limitations of the "Standard" or "Usual" Advice about Usenet

By Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 8 15:38:52 2023

Latest reply by Paul W. Schleck on Sun Oct 8 15:38:52 2023
ignore me, I need to know if this works

By ExistingNull on Mon Oct 2 14:31:27 2023

Latest reply by Marco Moock on Mon Oct 2 17:16:08 2023
Touhou: USENET in Gensokyo?

By Mima-sama on Mon Sep 25 18:40:56 2023

Latest reply by Mima-sama on Wed Sep 27 13:00:55 2023
OT: Usenet momento (Re: Touhou: USENET in Gensokyo?)

By Mima-sama on Mon Sep 25 18:44:03 2023

Latest reply by Mima-sama on Mon Sep 25 18:44:03 2023
Column width

By Samuel Christie on Mon Sep 18 14:25:21 2023

Latest reply by Rene Kita on Wed Sep 20 08:12:50 2023
Big-8 covered in The Register, TechSpot

By Tristan Miller on Mon Sep 18 13:55:56 2023

Latest reply by Tristan Miller on Mon Sep 18 13:55:56 2023
How can we prevent the relentless spam targeting usenet groups?

By Paul W. Schleck on Tue Aug 29 12:16:28 2023

Latest reply by vallor on Tue Sep 12 14:48:01 2023
Non-Usenet (but public) hierarchies

By John on Sun Jun 18 14:30:20 2023

Latest reply by rdh on Thu Aug 31 10:49:54 2023
newsgroup posting stats; User-Agent counts?

By Will on Sun Aug 13 17:04:27 2023

Latest reply by Marco Moock on Wed Aug 23 07:42:26 2023
Sample .newsrc file for recommended newsgroups

By Paul W. Schleck on Sat Jul 22 14:07:09 2023

Latest reply by jn on Sat Jul 29 03:12:08 2023
Finally I am back on Usenet the past few months,, been overposting in o

By Christian Mumford on Sun Mar 26 07:07:29 2023

Latest reply by Michael P. O'Connor on Thu Jun 22 11:49:54 2023
Presentation

By vallor on Sat Mar 25 08:06:46 2023

Latest reply by vallor on Sun Apr 16 22:07:44 2023
alt.binaries.wikileaks

By John Doe on Tue Nov 1 05:09:27 2022

Latest reply by John Doe on Wed Nov 23 03:32:34 2022
Re: LOL, it appears "Technoking" Elon Musk has driven a stake through T

By Siri Cruise on Fri Nov 11 13:06:41 2022

Latest reply by governor.swill@gmail.com on Sat Nov 12 03:46:13 2022
LOL, it appears "Technoking" Elon Musk has driven a stake through Twitt

By super70s on Fri Nov 11 15:00:03 2022

Latest reply by super70s on Fri Nov 11 15:00:03 2022
Remembering Netizens: An interview with Ronda Hauben

By Tristan Miller on Mon Sep 26 11:28:11 2022

Latest reply by 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Mon Sep 26 18:29:26 2022
30 Hours of Usenet

By Jason Evans on Mon Sep 12 10:27:22 2022

Latest reply by Frank Slootweg on Fri Sep 16 18:08:08 2022
Interesting Newsgroups?

By ldpshddtti on Tue Aug 30 16:10:41 2022

Latest reply by 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Wed Sep 14 11:32:51 2022
Re: Which providers and indexers cannot be mentioned in r/Usenet?

By 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Thu Sep 1 14:28:58 2022

Latest reply by 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Sat Sep 10 09:48:44 2022
Usenet in 2022, some thoughts and impressions

By Alterego on Mon Feb 21 19:35:26 2022

Latest reply by 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Thu Sep 1 23:25:20 2022
Re: Any play by post games on Usenet?

By 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Thu Sep 1 22:59:09 2022

Latest reply by 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Thu Sep 1 22:59:09 2022
Re: Is the Eternal September over

By ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 14:56:32 2022

Latest reply by ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 14:56:32 2022
Re: Tor Usenet Server

By ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 00:55:26 2022

Latest reply by ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 00:55:26 2022
Re: Usenet vs Social Media

By ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 00:54:08 2022

Latest reply by ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 00:54:08 2022
Re: Accessing Usenet from i2p?

By ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 00:43:36 2022

Latest reply by ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 00:43:36 2022
Re: how can we advocate for usenet more? It's dead these days

By ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 00:37:04 2022

Latest reply by ldpshddtti on Wed Aug 31 00:37:04 2022
Re: Few Newbie Qs about Usenet Newsgroups !

By Jason Evans on Tue May 17 18:08:45 2022

Latest reply by David Brooks on Sun Jul 31 23:39:40 2022
Reddit-NNTP: An RFC 3977 compliant NNTP server frontend for Reddit

By meff on Sun Apr 24 01:04:16 2022

Latest reply by meff on Sat May 7 19:24:33 2022
New Subreddit Created: r/ClassicUsenet

By Jason Evans on Tue Apr 19 08:06:59 2022

Latest reply by Francis S on Fri Apr 22 14:35:06 2022
CompuServe, GEnie, etc. and the Eternal September

By Tristan Miller on Tue Apr 12 16:59:23 2022

Latest reply by Tristan Miller on Thu Apr 14 14:07:41 2022
Newsrover Newsreader

By Alterego on Wed Apr 13 23:00:27 2022

Latest reply by Alterego on Wed Apr 13 23:00:27 2022
Usenet Archaeology

By Jason Evans on Wed Sep 22 11:32:07 2021

Latest reply by Jason Evans on Tue Apr 5 09:02:20 2022
Privacy question

By hey joe on Sat Mar 5 11:06:38 2022

Latest reply by Beard on Thu Mar 10 10:38:31 2022
In Honor of Flint Sit Down Strike Victory 2-11-1937

By ronda hauben on Fri Feb 11 19:44:47 2022

Latest reply by ronda hauben on Fri Feb 11 19:44:47 2022
Superhighway84 - Usenet-inspired decentralized internet discussion syst

By meff on Tue Dec 28 06:53:48 2021

Latest reply by meff on Tue Jan 4 01:10:58 2022
Nice to be back on Usenet

By Quag7 on Fri Sep 10 20:50:05 2021

Latest reply by 711 Spooky Mart on Fri Oct 22 02:24:45 2021
comp.infosystems.hypertext

By Plain Text on Wed Oct 6 17:32:58 2021

Latest reply by Rayner Lucas on Thu Oct 7 19:05:04 2021