Indeed Usenet lives!
I'm sending this reply via Thunderbird connected to news.gmane.io.
If this works, I think I'll switch away from Mail.app at least for the
GnuCash lists as I like the thread management better, plus the Reply
button defaults to reply-list address and I don't have to edit the TO:
header.
Though I see the compose window is truncating lines to a short length
rather than flowing freely. (with no preference to fix this in sight)
Regards,
Adrien
On 7/7/20 12:10 PM, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
Well, I’ll be.
I never delved into it after I found out my ISP at the time was dropping their
server. I wasn’t really using it that much at the time anyway.
And yes, I was using Thunderbird as a reader. (I think it was just Mozilla News
or something back in ’93)
I also thought Google Groups had been obliterated, but I see it is still up
indeed.
Thanks!
Regards,
Adrien
On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:04 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
The ISP's view of NNTP is just port 119. Does yours really block it? Try this
in Terminal:
nc -z news.gmane.io 119
It should respond
Connection to news.gmane.io port 119 [tcp/nntp] succeeded!
Provided that works you should be able to find a news reader program --
Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client used to work for that -- and connect to gmane.
Once upon a time News operated as a store-and-forward service like email and in
the early days of the commercial internet (soon after the US Department of
Defense handed control over to the Department of Commerce in 1992) and internet
service providers became a thing it was common for ISPs to set up News servers
alongside their mail servers to participate in that. It didn't take long for
the news to be centralized and it was no longer necessary for ISPs to provide
it. By the turn of the century the web had taken over the mind share and News
withered. Many of the old newsgroups live on as Google Groups, e.g.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.lang.C and
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork
*and*
nc -z -u groups.google.com 119
Connection to groups.google.com port 119 [udp/nntp] succeeded!
So if you want to go full retro, you still can.
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