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From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code?
Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 13:01:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180508200135.47C7B156E510@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2018 12:00:48 -0700." <alpine.BSF.2.21.1.1805081159390.81704@orthanc.ca>

On Tue, 08 May 2018 12:00:48 -0700 Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
Lyndon Nerenberg writes:
> > The problem is, many of us have stopped using it for whatever reason, and 
> > certainly don't store/forward much.
> >
> > Maybe it's time to take it back and get back to the original intention of 
> > USENET.
> 
> So where on Earth does one get an NNTP feed from these days?  Lord knows 
> I've tried.  An no, I'm not talking about a pay-for-access NNRP host that 
> I have to pull things from.

$ echo $NNTPSERVER
news.eternal-september.org

I think you have to register and authenticate when you connect.

I use tin now. Used to use nn in nn-6.4 days. Also used
thunderbird in between. May have used every other reader at
various times.

Back in 1989 timeframe I used to get a pretty complete feed
via uucp and maintain locally with cnews. Recently I tried
using "fetchnews" recently for that purpose (for the groups I
want) since eternal-september is a bit slow but something went
wrong.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-05-08 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-08 16:25 Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 16:36 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-08 16:43   ` Warner Losh
2018-05-08 17:06   ` arnold
2018-05-08 17:27     ` Dan Cross
2018-05-08 17:42       ` Andy Kosela
2018-05-08 21:27         ` [TUHS] Old Usenet / local communitites Mike Markowski
2018-05-08 17:53       ` [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 18:28         ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 18:35         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 18:45           ` Warner Losh
2018-05-08 19:00           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 19:09             ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:11             ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 21:50               ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 21:54                 ` Larry McVoy
2018-05-08 21:58                   ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 22:22               ` Henry Bent
2018-05-08 22:32                 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 22:59                   ` Henry Bent
2018-05-09  2:01                     ` Michael Parson
2018-05-09  1:55                 ` Michael Parson
2018-05-08 20:01             ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2018-05-08 21:56               ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 20:54             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 19:05           ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:15             ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 19:35               ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 19:23             ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 19:29               ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09  0:46                 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 19:26         ` Ron Natalie
2018-05-08 19:48           ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 20:54           ` Daniel Camolês
2018-05-08 22:55             ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:16               ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2018-05-08 23:18                 ` Henry Bent
2018-05-08 23:21                   ` George Michaelson
2018-05-08 23:25                   ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:22                 ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-08 23:37                   ` Grant Taylor
2018-05-09  0:54                 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-05-08 17:09   ` Clem Cole
2018-05-08 16:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-05-08 17:01   ` Seth Morabito
2018-05-08 19:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-05-08 21:49 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-08 23:39 ` John Labovitz
2018-05-09  0:08   ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-09  0:11     ` Jeremy C. Reed
2018-05-09  0:42       ` Warren Toomey
2018-05-09  0:31   ` Bakul Shah

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