From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah) Date: Tue, 08 May 2018 13:01:27 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2018 12:00:48 -0700." References: <1525796737.680198.1365037152.60B79FDC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180508163643.GA16384@mcvoy.com> <201805081706.w48H62gd027214@freefriends.org> <1525802016.2020176.1365125208.2706032F@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <20180508200135.47C7B156E510@mail.bitblocks.com> On Tue, 08 May 2018 12:00:48 -0700 Lyndon Nerenberg 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.