Re: How to find suitable mailing list or USENET group
Sirius writes:
> Usenet is rather quiet these days, something I hope will change once
> people tire of web-forums that is more preoccupied with showing you
> ads than they are solving your problem.
Not as long as browsers fail to support it and the myth that it cannot
handle anything but plain text persists. That's a Big Eight rule, not a
limitation on the software. It is obsolete and should be dropped. It
doesn't even apply to the alt hierarchy.
NNTP is a peer-to-peer protocol: you also don't need centralized
servers. In the old days it took a T1 and a VAX but now anyone with a
laptop, a fixed IP (or IPV6) and Starlink or fiber could outperform
IHNP4.
I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could.
Even easier might be a browser plugin.
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John Hasler
john@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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