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| From | Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Whats left of Usenet? |
| Date | 2016-08-07 00:59 -0300 |
| Organization | Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop |
| Message-ID | <8737mhmdp8.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink) |
| References | <slrnnqc29e.tml.catwheezel@ID-107770.user.individual.net> <no54qt$ika$1@gioia.aioe.org> <alpine.LNX.2.02.1608061400270.10593@darkstar.example.org> |
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> writes:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, pnwdaemon@always.wet wrote:
>
>>> ..
>>> Usenet offers effectively unlimited content, and is dispersed across
>>> many independent service providers - some commercial, some not.
>>
>> If only there were an easy way of finding active, on-topic groups..
>> is there a maintained list somewhere?
>>
> Well how did you find useful newsgroups in "the old days?"
>
> I probably grazed through the list of available newsgroups at one point,
> but mostly I'd guess at a name, and do a search of that list.
It can be a bother. Eternal September has about 30,000 groups. If
you save the list in a file, you can first just search that file for
key words you're interested in. Then create a script that will ignore
all groups obviously of no interest and you can cut that down
enormously. Perlishly,
while(<>)
{ m/^za/ && next;
m/keskustelu/ $$ next;
m/^alt\.fan/ && next;
m/^tw/ && next;
[etc. etc.]
print;
}
There are 2300+ groups in alt.fan.* alone. You can vgrep the result
for possibilities and browse them.
Also, you and a few friends can have a (completely insecure but)
effectively private group if you find one that's supported but has
zero traffic. hfx.general did that once for awhile when some
potty-mouthed political trolls threatened to swamp us.
> Since dejanews arrived shortly before I had full internet access in
> August of 1996, I started doing searches on things via dejanews, and
> that would uncover newsgroups that were discussing things that
> interested me. That still works, via google, though maybe their
> search engine of usenet has been messed up too much.
>
> Then you check the newsgroup, and see if it's active.
>
> Since it is all supposed to be in the right place, that's the way to do
> it, rather than looking for active newsgroups, since active newsgroups may
> not have the discussion you want.
>
> ANd the reality is people check newsgroups without posting. So someone
> could post on topic, and get replies.
--
Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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