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Did Google Groups disconnect from newsgroups yet? By: Ant on Thu, 22 Feb 2024	8	1 Day 21 Hours ago By: The Running Man
https://www.fidonet.org/ By: floffy@gallaxial.com on Wed, 27 Mar 2024	41	22 Days 19 Hours ago By: Nomen Nescio
net.martyr By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 5 Nov 2023	17	1 Month 18 Days ago By: candycanearter07
Re: social media disruption By: Stainless Steel Rat on Wed, 6 Mar 2024	10	1 Month 19 Days ago By: D
How can we prevent the relentless spam targeting usenet groups? By: Paul W. Schleck on Tue, 29 Aug 2023	48	2 Months 1 Day ago By: floffy@gallaxial.com
google groups users By: D on Thu, 15 Feb 2024	31	2 Months 7 Days ago By: D
in TB (ThunderBird), Middle-pane -- (unlike GG) there's no Message-count for ea By: Nomen Nescio on Sun, 25 Feb 2024	1	2 Months 8 Days ago By: D
Re: Re: google groups users By: The Running Man on Wed, 21 Feb 2024	1	2 Months 9 Days ago By: Steve Bonine
google groups final usenet article? By: D on Fri, 23 Feb 2024	0	2 Months 10 Days ago By: D
Current top myths about Usenet By: Paul W. Schleck on Wed, 14 Feb 2024	12	2 Months 14 Days ago By: rek2 hispagatos
Sample .newsrc file for recommended newsgroups (UPDATED) By: Paul W. Schleck on Mon, 15 Jan 2024	0	3 Months 18 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Usenet Newsgroups Part I - I find some Usenet Archives on CD-ROM By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 17 Dec 2023	5	4 Months 13 Days ago By: D. Ray
Remembering the 90s flame wars: a simpler time of cyberbullying By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 26 Nov 2023	13	5 Months ago By: Scott Dorsey
The Early History of Usenet By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 3 Dec 2023	0	5 Months ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Two Takes on the Eternal September By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 26 Nov 2023	0	5 Months 7 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Self-regulation, Co-regulation, State Regulation By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 19 Nov 2023	0	5 Months 14 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Serial vs. Browsed, Reader-Friendly vs. Writer-Friendly By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 19 Nov 2023	0	5 Months 14 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Contrary to popular opinion, people with higher education level and cognitive ab By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 12 Nov 2023	0	5 Months 21 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
It's only Usenet, no one dies (Well, except that time on rec.radio.cb ... ) By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 12 Nov 2023	0	5 Months 21 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
As time goes on, messaging technology on the internet (forums and message boards By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 12 Nov 2023	0	5 Months 21 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
apparently comp.arch, comp.lang.c++, and com.lang.fortran are now readonly at go By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 12 Nov 2023	0	5 Months 21 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Online talk: "Federation and moderation: Usenet as the original By: Usenet Big-8 Managem on Tue, 14 Mar 2023	26	5 Months 23 Days ago By: Sn!pe
How to fix the internet (MIT Technology Review) By: Paul W. Schleck on Sat, 21 Oct 2023	6	5 Months 28 Days ago By: Scott Dorsey
A Few Thoughts on the Internet - The Brushpainter By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 5 Nov 2023	0	5 Months 28 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Poll: Why are you not a Usenet newsgroup moderator? (Warning: Sarcastic Content) By: Paul W. Schleck on Sat, 14 Oct 2023	5	5 Months 29 Days ago By: Sn!pe
Let the community work it out: Throwback to early internet days could fix social By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 29 Oct 2023	0	6 Months 4 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 29 Oct 2023	0	6 Months 4 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
The conventional wisdom about not feeding trolls makes online abuse worse - The By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 29 Oct 2023	0	6 Months 4 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Examples of Abuse By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 8 Oct 2023	8	6 Months 12 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Sample .newsrc file for recommended newsgroups (UPDATED) By: Paul W. Schleck on Sat, 21 Oct 2023	0	6 Months 12 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Why are we really here? By: pschleck on Sat, 21 Oct 2023	0	6 Months 12 Days ago By: pschleck
"Usenet is a cesspool, a dung heap." - Patrick A. Townson, The UNIX-HATERS Handb By: Paul W. Schleck on Sat, 14 Oct 2023	2	6 Months 19 Days ago By: Scott Dorsey
Pushback on Usenet? By: Paul W. Schleck on Sat, 14 Oct 2023	0	6 Months 19 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
TSFAQ Links to Prof. Timo Salmi's FAQ materials (archive.org, 2012) By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 8 Oct 2023	2	6 Months 23 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
Newsreader killfiles, the "Nunchucks of Usenet" By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 8 Oct 2023	1	6 Months 25 Days ago By: rdh
Subject matter newsgroups: Threading the needle between arcanery and kookery By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 8 Oct 2023	2	6 Months 25 Days ago By: Mack A. Damia
Limitations of the "Standard" or "Usual" Advice about Usenet By: Paul W. Schleck on Sun, 8 Oct 2023	0	6 Months 25 Days ago By: Paul W. Schleck
ignore me, I need to know if this works By: ExistingNull on Mon, 2 Oct 2023	1	7 Months 1 Day ago By: Marco Moock
Touhou: USENET in Gensokyo? By: Mima-sama on Mon, 25 Sep 2023	21	7 Months 7 Days ago By: Kijin Seija
Column width By: Samuel Christie on Mon, 18 Sep 2023	4	7 Months 13 Days ago By: Rene Kita
Big-8 covered in The Register, TechSpot By: Tristan Miller on Mon, 18 Sep 2023	0	7 Months 15 Days ago By: Tristan Miller
Non-Usenet (but public) hierarchies By: John on Sun, 18 Jun 2023	11	8 Months 2 Days ago By: rdh
newsgroup posting stats; User-Agent counts? By: Will on Sun, 13 Aug 2023	6	8 Months 11 Days ago By: Marco Moock
Sample .newsrc file for recommended newsgroups By: Paul W. Schleck on Sat, 22 Jul 2023	2	9 Months 5 Days ago By: jn
Finally I am back on Usenet the past few months,, been overposting in By: Christian Mumford on Sun, 26 Mar 2023	34	10 Months 11 Days ago By: Michael P. O'Co
Presentation By: vallor on Sat, 25 Mar 2023	7	1 Year ago By: vallor
alt.binaries.wikileaks By: John Doe on Tue, 1 Nov 2022	6	1 Year 5 Months ago By: Anon
LOL, it appears "Technoking" Elon Musk has driven a stake through Twitter's hear By: super70s on Fri, 11 Nov 2022	2	1 Year 5 Months ago By: governor.swill
Re: Is the Eternal September over By: ldpshddtti on Wed, 31 Aug 2022	25	1 Year 6 Months ago By: Andreas Kohlbach
Remembering Netizens: An interview with Ronda Hauben By: Tristan Miller on Mon, 26 Sep 2022	1	1 Year 7 Months ago By: 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD
30 Hours of Usenet By: Jason Evans on Mon, 12 Sep 2022	11	1 Year 7 Months ago By: Frank Slootweg
Interesting Newsgroups? By: ldpshddtti on Tue, 30 Aug 2022	2	1 Year 7 Months ago By: 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD
Re: Which providers and indexers cannot be mentioned in r/Usenet? By: 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Thu, 1 Sep 2022	2	1 Year 7 Months ago By: 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD
Re: Usenet in 2022, some thoughts and impressions By: 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Thu, 1 Sep 2022	0	1 Year 8 Months ago By: 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD
Re: Any play by post games on Usenet? By: 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD on Thu, 1 Sep 2022	0	1 Year 8 Months ago By: 5GyYap52yQ1UGMWD
Re: Is the Eternal September over By: ldpshddtti on Wed, 31 Aug 2022	0	1 Year 8 Months ago By: ldpshddtti
Re: Tor Usenet Server By: ldpshddtti on Tue, 30 Aug 2022	0	1 Year 8 Months ago By: ldpshddtti
Re: Usenet vs Social Media By: ldpshddtti on Tue, 30 Aug 2022	0	1 Year 8 Months ago By: ldpshddtti
Re: Accessing Usenet from i2p? By: ldpshddtti on Tue, 30 Aug 2022	0	1 Year 8 Months ago By: ldpshddtti
Re: how can we advocate for usenet more? It's dead these days By: ldpshddtti on Tue, 30 Aug 2022	0	1 Year 8 Months ago By: ldpshddtti
Re: Few Newbie Qs about Usenet Newsgroups ! By: Jason Evans on Tue, 17 May 2022	1	1 Year 9 Months ago By: David Brooks
Re: Reddit-NNTP: An RFC 3977 compliant NNTP server frontend for By: Donaldson on Fri, 6 May 2022	1	1 Year 11 Months ago By: meff
Re: Reddit-NNTP: An RFC 3977 compliant NNTP server frontend for By: meff on Tue, 26 Apr 2022	0	2 Years ago By: meff

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