From: constance@duxmail.com
On 2023-12-14, Con Reeder, unhyphenated American wrote:
> On 2023-12-14, JGibson wrote:
>> Just saw this note that the top of rsfc:
>>
>> *BEGIN QUOTE*
>> Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new
>> Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new
>> content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of
>> historical data will still be supported as it is done today
>
> I suspect that post volume will dictate that -- seems like the majority
> of users are from Google Groups.
>
> What do you use for email? A lot of the clients have Usenet, such as
> Thunderbird.
>
> I wonder if Eternal September will get overwhelmed and disappear, requiring
> one to pay for it. There are no good providers with sub-$5.00/month cost that
> I can find. I had a $3.00 Supernews for years, but that is gone.
>
> I suppose I could bring up a Usenet server and try to pull RSFC and
> a couple of other groups, but I haven't tried to find Usenet peers for
> more than a decade and don't even know if it is really possible....
>
It is -- I would use the old "suck" program to pull in the group (and
the few others I still watch) from an NNTP feed, then provide a server
that people could use. I doubt that there will be a call for it,
but if there were, I could do it.
Hard to believe that after 34 years of Usenet use, it will be history
for me. I got my first feed from UIUC, then from UUNET, if anyone
remembers them. I ran news peers with C News, then INN, for a number
of years. All through the Morris incident, Sep 1994, rise of the
spammers (I wonder if Sanford Wallace is still alive) and the
corresponding cancelers. What a fustercluck.
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