The only problem I have with it is the ridiculous limit of 100,000 headers at a time. I really wish Simon Fraser wouldn't have abandoned it. so I could run a VM of Snow Leopard so I can still run MT-Newswatcher. Some people are, and perhaps for them the Commercial alternatives are appropriate.)Įdited 1 time(s). (Edited- I forgot to mention that I was never interested in the Binaries Newsgroups. (I also pushed hard for, but some people had no sense of humor.) I can't remember exact dates, 1981-1991 is still fuzzy, (Owlshift.), but I was using a Sun 2/50 at the time.) (I wrote some User Guides and worked on a couple of commitees. I didn't get a dime for all that I contributed early on, and rarely did anybody else. I will not, out of principle, pay a dime extra for USENET access. I see that hasn't had a relevant post since last year.Īstound killed their nntp server a couple of years ago some ISPs still have them, but they may not necessarily publicize the fact. Google Groups is pretty bad, but it does provide some access, if you know your way around. Two feeds mentioned above,, and, appear to be down. You can download and compile tin, an open-source threaded Newsreader, in the Terminal, and access direct Netnews feeds that way. If you have access to a Remote Shell account on a system that provides Netnews, you just need Telnet, available stock in the OSX Terminal, or one of the various third party Desktop versions. Some are specialized indeed, and need quite a toolshop. I wonder if any here made it all the way from, to dealmac, and then to MRF unscathed. Let's hear it for the "specialized toolz". Usenet was never supposed to be a commercial "market". " The market for a Usenet client in 2014 isn’t exactly huge." I think the reason I like to hang out here at MRF is that it is as stunningly broad in the range of topics discussed (and in the generally high quality of the information presented) as any subset of the Usenet, then or now. (there are others, but they are moribund)įree signup Usenet servers at and have the full forest of news trees, reasonably fast download, and seem to be always available. There are some active corners of the Usenet even now, 40+ years on, but there are also a lot of moribund newsgroups still listed with no one, not even crickets, chirping. The apps discussed above are centered more on downloading from the bin.* binaries hierarchy rather than participating in topic discussions. Gravity, for Windows something-or-other, is unsupported, but has an interface that is closest to the news readers of old (late 70's, early 80's), and does not sport Mozilla's 'we do it all for you in our inimitable fashion, whether you like it or not, so there' attitude. * each message in a thread of discussion is saved as a separate ncatenation is not an option. * there does not appear to be a way to bind keys to frequently used menu action items * it balances the lack of key UI with 2- and 3-level menu picks * it has a wonky, undocumented keyboard interface I have been using Thunderbird as a news reader.
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