8 May
2018
8 May
'18
10:01 p.m.
On Tue, 08 May 2018 12:00:48 -0700 Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
Lyndon Nerenberg writes:
$ echo $NNTPSERVER
news.eternal-september.org
I think you have to register and authenticate when you connect.
I use tin now. Used to use nn in nn-6.4 days. Also used
thunderbird in between. May have used every other reader at
various times.
Back in 1989 timeframe I used to get a pretty complete feed
via uucp and maintain locally with cnews. Recently I tried
using "fetchnews" recently for that purpose (for the groups I
want) since eternal-september is a bit slow but something went
wrong.
The problem
is, many of us have stopped using it for whatever reason, and
certainly don't store/forward much.
Maybe it's time to take it back and get back to the original intention of
USENET.
So where on Earth does one get an NNTP feed from these days? Lord knows
I've tried. An no, I'm not talking about a pay-for-access NNRP host that
I have to pull things from.