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|    Message 374 of 1,115    |
|    Fish Trunks to HelixPilot    |
|    Re: A few questions about Usenet    |
|    15 Oct 25 16:18:47    |
      From: fish.trunks@proton.me              On 10/15/2025 2:45 PM, HelixPilot wrote:       > On 10/10/2025 00:04, auanon wrote:       >> As for question 3, you can simply self host a newsgroup. The trouble       >> lies in actually getting other servers to peer it. Even       >> eternal-september, which might be happy to peer say alt.cyberpunk.tech       >> with someone, almost certainly isn't going to accept the chan.g group.       > Honestly even when usenet was way way way more active than it is now       > getting a group created was a lot of hard work and kind of out of the       > hands of anyone who didn't work at or knew someone at one of the big       > relays. As far as 4chan refugees are concerned, like I've mentioned       > elsewhere, we'd be better off just taking over a dead group that already       > exists. For example there's no point trying to get alt.chan.tv made when       > alt.tv already exists.       >       > HP                     I had a similar idea. I'm going to hijack rec.games.misc. The problem is       how to get the wheel rolling but I'll think about it              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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