* [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: [off-topic] Anyone still using USENET? [not found] ` <2e22ed63-3817-cd91-3f1b-cf169eb83230@riddermarkfarm.ca> @ 2023-01-27 19:31 ` Stuff Received 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Stuff Received @ 2023-01-27 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw) To: COFF On 2023-01-27 14:23, Stuff Received wrote: > On 2023-01-27 12:42, Henry Mensch wrote (in part): >> I'd like to find solid Android and Windows clients so I could once >> again use USENET. > > I read USENET (at Newsdemon -- USD3 monthly) with Firefox (on MacOS) but > presumably will also work on Windows. Oops -- Thunderbird, not Firefox. > > N. > > (We seem to have strayed into COFF territory...) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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* [COFF] Re: Anyone still using USENET? [not found] ` <CALMnNGgBGW=jw65SX6hprkiej4_svquopCf3uwdHk=Z7Baxp=w@mail.gmail.com> @ 2023-01-28 21:24 ` Nevin Liber 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Nevin Liber @ 2023-01-28 21:24 UTC (permalink / raw) To: coff [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1315 bytes --] [moved to COFF] On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 4:16 AM Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com> wrote: > Great initiative and idea! While I am personally not interested in reading > USENET that much nowadays, the concept of providing free, public access to > classic Internet services (public USENET, FTP, IRC, finger, etc.) gets all > my praise. What happened to free, public services these days? First off, what is stopping you from providing free, public access to those services? I don't know where you are, but I have orders of magnitude more access to freely available content and services than I ever did in the heyday of Usenet, etc. And for most of it, one doesn't have to be highly technical to use it. > Everything appears to to be subscriber pay-as-you-go based. The > commercialization killed the free spirit of Internet we all loved in the > 90s. > "Free" was never really true, as it required massive subsidies of equipment, power, bandwidth and employee time, usually w/o the direct knowledge or consent of the entities paying for it. It reminds me of the lemonade stands I'd occasionally run as a kid, which were "profitable" to me because mom and dad, with their knowledge and consent, let me pretend that the costs were $0. -- Nevin ":-)" Liber <mailto:nevin@eviloverlord.com> +1-847-691-1404 [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2165 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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