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From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To: arnold@skeeve.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: [off-topic] Anyone still using USENET?
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 17:23:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK7dMtB8ZWT6_WSaY12Ti_Qo3Z=_fUNHT07+1kY795X+6REjYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202301270853.30R8rif6014271@freefriends.org>

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On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 1:54 AM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've been using trn for decades to read a very few USENET groups. Until
> recently I've
> been using aioe.org as my NNTP server but it seems to have gone dark.
> Before that
> I used eternal-september.org, but when I try that I now get:
>
> | $ NNTPSERVER=news.eternal-september.org trn
> | Connecting to news.eternal-september.org...Done.
> |
> | Invalid (bogus) newsgroup found: comp.sys.3b1
> |
> | Invalid (bogus) newsgroup found: comp.sources.bugs
> |
> | Invalid (bogus) newsgroup found: comp.misc
> |
> | Invalid (bogus) newsgroup found: comp.compilers
> | ....
>
> And those all are (or were!) valid groups. If anyone has suggestions for a
> good
> free NNTP server, please let me know. Privately is fine.  I'm at a bit of
> a loss otherwise.
>

I maintain inn and some related ports for FreeBSD.  I run a public server
at csiph.com and am happy to provide accounts or peering to interested
parties.  Read access is open.


> Thanks,
>
> Arnold
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-01-28  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-27  8:53 [TUHS] " arnold
2023-01-27  9:03 ` [TUHS] " Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-27  9:24   ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27  9:34     ` John Cowan
2023-01-27 16:05     ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-27 17:01       ` Angel M Alganza
2023-01-27 17:08         ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-27 10:36 ` parodper via TUHS
2023-01-27 14:45 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-27 14:51   ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 14:56   ` Ron Young via TUHS
2023-01-27 17:39 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2023-01-27 17:42   ` Henry Mensch
2023-01-27 19:23     ` Stuff Received
2023-01-29  9:00   ` arnold
2023-01-28  0:23 ` Kevin Bowling [this message]
2023-01-28 10:15   ` Andy Kosela
2023-01-28 17:01     ` John Cowan

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