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Re: (Newsgrouper, CsiPh) ------ camel, humps ------ (chaise, fauteuil)

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Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> posted:

> Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> posted:
> 
> > On 6/11/26 08:49, HenHanna wrote:
> > > 
> > >> https://newsgrouper.org/alt.usage.english
> > >>
> > >> https://csiph.com/group/alt.usage.english
> > >> https://csiph.com/group/rec.puzzles
> > >>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I dont know why CsiPh  doesn't convert these into live links.
> > 
> > It's a security thing, the feed is truly plain text.
> > 
> > Promoting anything to outbound links opens the site up as a target for 
> > SEO farming, Phishing, etc.  On a modern browser you can highlight the 
> > link text and "Open link" from right click.
> 
> In Newsgrouper I do make such links clickable.  But to guard against
> misuse I require the user to login, at least as a guest, before they
> can get past the login page.  That keeps out indexers, AI scrapers etc.
> 

thank you....

Some obvious Advantages of Newsgrouper are

-- live links
-- Rot13

-- recognizable naming   (unlike  Csiph)

-- my browser lets me in login automatically

(Maybe a little faster  when i'm posting)

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(Newsgrouper, CsiPh) ------ camel, humps ------ (chaise, fauteuil) "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-06-11 15:32 +0000
  Re: (Newsgrouper, CsiPh) ------ camel, humps ------ (chaise, fauteuil) "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-06-11 15:49 +0000
    Re: (Newsgrouper, CsiPh) ------ camel, humps ------ (chaise, fauteuil) Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> - 2026-06-11 21:09 -0700
      Re: (Newsgrouper, CsiPh) ------ camel, humps ------ (chaise, fauteuil) Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-12 08:31 +0000
        Re: (Newsgrouper, CsiPh) ------ camel, humps ------ (chaise, fauteuil) HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-13 17:12 +0000
  Is Narkive down? (was: (Newsgrouper, CsiPh) blah blah blah) VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-06-11 16:34 -0500
     Narkive -- UsenetArchives.com -- NPR (CarTalk) Puzzler HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-06-13 17:26 +0000

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