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   Con Reeder, unhyphenated American to xyzzy   
   Re: Do I get a newsreader or do I just g   
   18 Dec 23 17:30:25   
   
   From: constance@duxmail.com   
      
   On 2023-12-16, xyzzy  wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > Eternal September has been flaky lately. Been seeing a lot of out of   
   > sequence post delivery where I see the replies before the original poast,   
   > or never see the original poast. It was making rsfc unusable for me so I   
   > stopped for a while. But checking in now it *seems* to have been resolved.   
   > We’ll see   
      
   Same here. But the paganini.bofh.team server that was posted here is working   
   great for me, and I am using it.   
      
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   That a few of us need to be more in touch with our feelings has obscured   
   a deep truth: many more folks need to be much less in touch with theirs.   
   -- Eric Weinstein   
      
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