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usenet's usefulness

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certainly for more than three decades, unmoderated usenet newsgroups
have been the untamed wild west of internet-accessible public forums,          
as anyone could post plain text articles averting content moderation,     
making unmoderated usenet the only public repository on planet earth    
that has not been routinely subjected to moderation, i.e. censorship   
   
newsreader filters are typically used to improve the signal-to-noise  
ratio inherent in these uncensored message boards, by manually white-  
listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else, 
most all newsreaders have filtering options, allow multiservers, etc. 
  
(using Tor Browser 15.0.11) 
>http://usenet-fr.yakakwatik.org/newsreaders.html 
>Last update:  05/06/2025                                              
>  Introduction 
>  Newsreaders     
>    40Tude Dialog (Windows)
>    Betterbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>    Claws-Mail (Linux / Windows / macOS) 
>    Evolution (Linux)  
>    flnews (Linux, UNIX systems)
>    Gnus (Linux / Windows / macOS)     
>    Gravity (Windows)
>    MacCafe (macOS)        
>    MacSOUP (macOS = 10.14)
>    MesNews (Windows) 
>    ModNewsreader (Android and its forks) 
>    Pan (Linux / macOS)
>    SeaMonkey (Linux / Windows / macOS)                
>    slrn (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>    Sylpheed (Linux / Windows / macOS)
>    Thunderbird (Linux / Windows / macOS) 
>    tin (Linux / Windows / macOS) 
>    Xananews (Windows)            
>    Xnews (Windows) 
>  References and useful links 
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client-side newsreader filtering is essential to usenet's usefulness, 
listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else  
                                           
web-based usenet servers certainly have their usefulness too, telnet 
is also very helpful, but for those who recall using "deja news" for
newsgroup browsing, searching, posting, replying, it worked reliably
up to until about twenty-five years ago, then "google groups" worked         
for a couple of years, but after 2004 (twenty-two years ago), it was  
clear to everyone that gg had become unreliable, no longer useful as
a usenet archive search engine, but did apparently work famously for                       
flooding usenet beyond all other servers combined, reigning champion
              
and yet, after forty-five long years, tiny usenet just won't go away,
hence has been the forum of choice for nonconformists, free thinkers,               
outsiders, specifically because unmoderated newsgroups are available,         
and apart from server-side spam filters, expirations, removals, etc.,      
uncensored content is posted intact . . . social media can't compete,     
and some nntp newsservers carry binary groups, for those so inclined    
   
usenet probably serves other purposes lesser known or even unheardof,  
but in general terms, it's a means of communication unique to itself,  
its audience many contributors but mostly lurkers, a silent majority, 
so though it may seem as if no one is reading, be sure that they are 
     

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