From: constance@duxmail.com
On 2023-12-16, Happy Holidaze wrote:
> "Con Reeder, unhyphenated American" wrote in
> news:slrnunn11t.1ajdo.constance@karen.heins.net:
>
>> 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....
>
> This should do it for most.
>
> paganini.bofh.team port 119 or 563
>
> No registration required, good retention.
Seems to work well. I'll try it for a while. This in combination with
Thunderbird or Pan should work pretty well for most people, though I don't
know what mobile or tablet users would find to use.
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creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized alone
are entangled in. -- William Shenstone
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