Speaking of GRC… Steve posted that he just got married a few days ago..
congrats.. to Steve :)
> On 12 Apr 2021, at 14:40, Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
> wrote:
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> tor 2021-04-01 klockan 12:15 -0600 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
>> On 4/1/21 11:36 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
>>> what
tor 2021-04-01 klockan 12:15 -0600 skrev Grant Taylor via cctalk:
> On 4/1/21 11:36 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
> > what Newsreader programs do people use on Windows?
>
> I run Linux, so I don't have first hand experience with news readers
> on
> Windows. But I do know that people use the
On 4/4/21 1:32 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
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Oh well.
Bitten by the altered Reply-To.
Glad I didn't say anything I mind being public.
Sorry for the noise.
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On 4/4/21 2:41 AM, John Many Jars via cctalk wrote:
I kind of wrote my own. I sign my BBS up to the usenet groups I want
to read and it treats them like message boards...
Nicely done!
Not exactly Windows (more like Linux) but it's what I use ON Windows
to read Usenet.
I'm
You can make a pretty nice native command line environment on Windows with
“Windows Terminal” from Microsoft and the Chocolatey package manager (which
is like homebrew for Mac or similar to apt for Debian). There is also WSL
which lets you run a native Linux distro in a fairly integrated way. If
I kind of wrote my own. I sign my BBS up to the usenet groups I want to
read and it treats them like message boards...
Not exactly Windows (more like Linux) but it's what I use ON Windows to
read Usenet.
On Sun, 4 Apr 2021 at 00:23, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> There is probably also the option of using the TUI news readers in / via
> Windows Services for Linux (?is that the proper name for /today/?).
I have never used that port myself, but there's PC-Alpine worth
considering, which I believe uses n
On 4/1/21 10:34 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Considering my original USENET access was at $6 per hour, I’m not
entirely sure I agree. :-) Then again that’s also why we used to be
able to download and upload messages for offline reading.
I was referring to being connected while reading.
Seeing as ho
On 4/2/21 12:34 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Apr 1, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes?
I don't know.
Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system th
Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
On Apr 1, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes?
I don't know.
Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system that
frequently charged
> On Apr 1, 2021, at 3:55 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
>> Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes?
>
> I don't know.
>
> Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a system
> that frequently charged for acces
On 4/1/21 12:51 PM, Zane Healy wrote:
Did USENET news readers exist for IBM Mainframes?
I don't know.
Spending time reading Usenet (sometimes of questionable value) on a
system that frequently charged for access seems counterproductive to me.
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> On Apr 1, 2021, at 11:15 AM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> - Gravity (S.G. is updating it at GRC; https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm)
> - Thunderbird (I use this on Linux)
> - Xnews (I think?)
Sadly “Xnews" for Windows hasn’t been updated in 15 years, it was pretty good
when I was
On 4/1/21 11:36 AM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
what Newsreader programs do people use on Windows?
I run Linux, so I don't have first hand experience with news readers on
Windows. But I do know that people use the following:
- Gravity (S.G. is updating it at GRC;
https://www.grc.com/dis
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
I am hesitant to post this because I don't want to start a massive debate,
but what Newsreader programs do people use on Windows?
Rob, you might want to give Xananews a shot.
https://github.com/graemeg/xananews
g.
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I am hesitant to post this because I don't want to start a massive debate,
but what Newsreader programs do people use on Windows?
I don't want to use Google Groups because it wants me to sign in to Google.
I am generally reluctant to use a browser based reader because it will want
to track me.
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