Does anyone still browse/use newsgroups USENET?

Since Google ended much of their access, it has died.



Was a simple fast format...too bad it is about gone

it isn't gone!

don't just post in here and then run out like scalded cat!


come back sweety!

alt.binaries ain't what she used to be. Too many snoops.

many spam and virals i hear

It's still the best place to get things if you pay for it

Signing up?

They are free. Set up your own server, dead easy.

I said it is "about gone"...less access.


RSS is going that way too.

Or start your own news group then you get

but g**anews looks good

Sign up and give us a review and how to do it

Ah, yes, newsgroups! The last cool place on the internet.

I used giganews for years until I got stuck with limited monthly bandwidth. I was quite happy with them. Their retention on binaries was far longer than advertised in popular groups, sometimes over a year.

I envy you, Astral. I say dive in and free up some hdd space!

yes, they get expensive after trial

I think I paid 40/mo maybe 3 years ago for their unlimited plan, is it comparable now?

I made sure to get my money's worth ;)

I was browsing textnews.news.cambrium.nl


and there are vast amounts of SPAM!

Is there a GLP newsgroup? lol

Back in the day it was all newsgroups, IRC, and BBS.

Now it's all GLP & Skype

I am guessing some of the paid servers have spam blocking?

So USENET used to be really big back in the day?

>I am guessing some of the paid servers have spam blocking?

Not really, remember kill buckets? You can get megalists of anti spam lists.

Otherwise here's some free Usenet servers. You need an nntp client though.


totally free nntp news servers which allow posting to the text-only newsgroups:
1. news.eternal-september.org 119 (email registration required)
2. reader.albasani.net 119 (email registration required)
3. nntp.aioe.org 119 (no registration whatsoever)
?

Try easynews.com


Been with them for years. Binary retention is fabulous.

Pay about $12 a month. Unused gigs get rolled over. Eventually you'll have more gigs banked than you could ever need.

comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim

Man, I miss the Flame Wars!

from a star trek newsgroup posted on 9/3/2013


This page was born because of my righteous anger at Trek "fans" who repeatedly talk about "Playboy Kirk" or the Star Trek "Babes" in an appallingly sexist way. Here's proof that Kirk was NOT a playboy and Star Trek was NOT a sexist show. It was an anti-sexist show: one of the first, and one of the all-time best.

From now on, when anyone rolls into the Trek fan forum, spits their gum out onto the floor, and oafishly declares that Kirk was a heterosexual horndog who porked all of the chicks, I want you all to boldly and confidently SCOFF at them. Scoff also if they say that all the TOS women were bimbos in miniskirts who were nothing but eye-candy. The only proper reaction to such ill-informed opinions is round, sound scoffery... as I herein demonstrate:

[link to allyourtrekarebelongto.us]

If we are going to argue, let's argue about facts, not fantasies nor falsehoods.


LOL!

describe some of them this sounds good!

There are still in excess of 140,000 binary newsgroups. Not all are free, some you have to pay for, but the problem is not the newsgroups, but the readers required to read them. They are not cheap, and not fully worth it. Of course most if not all are monitored by the NSA, FBI, and others, but what the hell aint these days.

TrekWOrld Problems

[link to imgur.com]

Yeah I'm trying to read some of these in THunderbird and it is hurting my eyes

LOOKIn GOOD!


:)

Back in the old days, USENET was the original CT forum. Lots of QUALITY INFORMATION and actual real "insiders" posting stuff, back before the internet was tracked down to the room you're sitting in. I think USENET was the first place to start piecing together 9/11 news coverage inconsistencies, just a few days after it happened. Of course at that time, people thought you were an absolute nutcase if you thought it was an "inside job" now I see bumper stickers on cars. Way ahead of their time.

Way back in the late 90s someone posted a Pink Floyd riddle that, to this day, has never been solved.