Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jerry Penner Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2.programmer Subject: Re: Junk Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:38:46 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.2B1DC68F0111579E30B53138F@ssl-eu.astraweb.com> <0001HW.2B1F12EC015F3D3C30E3CD38F@ssl-eu.astraweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="059efcfb015af11333f580839045972c"; logging-data="453384"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19vIwPSPR2ZLtsCTBihbugo" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ppPDlJjMgHFt8aqkZWCw9+Vlb/Q= sha1:rF1AXzsmUE8MajudNtWw4ajO3zg= Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.apple2.programmer:6215 Bill Chatfield writes: > On Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 3:12:30 AM UTC-5, Speccie wrote: >> Bill, >> > But for the longest time I have not been able to find a Usenet server other than just >> using Google Groups. They have all disappeared. >> There are still loads of servers out there, from the free ones that don’t do the binary >> groups, and the paid for ones that have all 111,000 groups. Type “news servers” into >> Google, and you will be flooded with results. >> >> Of the paid for servers, the expensive but excellent Giganews is still there: >> >> https://giganews.com >> >> I use the cheaper Astraweb, which does not have all the frills of Giganews, but does >> have all the groups: >> >> https://www.astraweb.com >> Cheers - Ewen > I found http://www.eternal-september.org yesterday. It is free and seems to work pretty > well. I don't like either of the programs I've tried in Linux to access it though: > Evolution and Thunderbird. Evolution is slow and the setup is way more complicated than it > needs to be. Thunderbird's UI is terrible. I would like to try slrn, but I haven't figured > out how to set it up yet. There is also Claws Mail, but I haven't figured out how to set > that up either. I just have to get the IIgs out I guess. :-) Well, don't give up on finding a client to read usenet with. There are more out there. The one I use on Linux probably ain't much of a suggestion for you, because unless you already use `emacs`, you're unlikely to want to learn it just to read newsgroups. I've been using its builtin `gnus` news reader for years. In the past, I used `rn` (80s) and `nn` later on. I might have used `tin`, which I see is still available for installation on my Linux Mint system. It might be worth a shot? -- Jerry jerry+a2 at jpen.ca