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Re: Looking for an INMOS IMS B017 PS/2 MCA board.

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Am Mon, 17 Jan 2022 16:34:04 -0800
schrieb Chris Hanson <cmhanson@eschatologist.net>:

> On 12/23/21 4:31 AM, B419 wrote:
>  > BTW and OT:
>  > Hi fellows, what do you think about using a different board/group/BB?
>  > IMHO this google groups are realy uncomfortable.  
> 
> This is not a "Google group," it's a Usenet newsgroup. That means it's a 
> fully distributed bulletin board, and Google Groups is just one way to 
> access it.
> 

Yes I knew this, but I have not found a working newsserver.

> For example, I use Thunderbird as my client and eternal-september.org as 
> my NNTP server; there are lots of other clients, including GNUS in 
> emacs, and lots of other NNTP servers carrying the various groups.
> 

So, thanks for this info.
As you can see now I post through this server.

> The worst thing to do to a community is to migrate it to a "web forum" 
> or "web chat" without an email or news gateway, because then only people 
> who like visiting that type of forum in a web browser would participate. 
> Usenet clients generally provide a far superior experience, and Usenet's 
> distributed nature ensures that what people say actually gets archived 
> properly.

This was not my intention.

> 
>    -- Chris
> 
> 

Thanks again for the hint.

Matsche 

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  Re: Looking for an INMOS IMS B017 PS/2 MCA board. B419 <thematsche@gmail.com> - 2021-12-23 04:31 -0800
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