From: coyo@spammers-belong-in.hell   
      
   On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 00:11:57 -0400   
   uni_rule  wrote:   
      
   > On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:33:31 -0400, Dan Skunk    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >On 2022-06-17 17:51, floofer wrote:   
   > >> im new to this. it was a pain for me to set up in    
   > >   
   > >Welcome! Seems to be a pain for many to set up. :s   
   > Even the most relatively easy ways to set this up besides Groups such   
   > as with ES and Thunderbird is a bit of a pain to just find. Nobody   
   > explains it and mentions of Usenet on the broader net are almost   
   > exclusively about paying for binary piracy. Just figuring out where to   
   > go is enough of a hurdle that it even scares away the hipsers that are   
   > usually into old platforms like this. Even telnet is easier to set up,   
   > which leads to a really odd state of affairs where BBS's are more   
   > popular than newsgroups in the current year.   
      
   The ironic thing is that Usenet is actually pretty new, compared to   
   even older networks. Usenet evolved from UUCPnet, and wasn't really   
   possible in its current form without high speed NNTP (TCP/IP)   
   connections over the big-I Internet.   
      
   Before NNTP, you had to dial over the phone between UUUCPnet servers to   
   exchange netmail. The UUCP G protocol was elaborate and bulky, so you   
   needed a relatively stable and high speed copper line for it. While   
   most of us who remember dialup remember the AOL 56k modems, there was a   
   time when you felt blessed by the stars if you could get 33 baud.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XLZ4Z8LpEE behold the 1930s era boudot   
   code teletype. Do you feel old yet?   
      
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