Subj : Re: host/ip settings
To   : fusion
From : MRO
Date : Sun Apr 13 2025 13:15:16

  Re: Re: host/ip settings
  By: fusion to Accession on Sun Apr 13 2025 09:31 am

 > On 13 Apr 2025, Accession said the following...
 >
 >  Ac> Either way, I recently created an account on eternal-september.org
 >
 >  Ac> and
 >  Ac> subscribed to a bunch of newsgroups (BBS related, 2600 related, Fido
 >  Ac> (even Russian fido7 newsgroups) related) to see if there was any
 >  Ac> activity there. Usenet as a whole seems fairly dead, unfortunately.
 >
 > yeah.. unfortunately you'd have to subscribe to *everything* for about a
 > month to know where activity is. it'll be empty and then there will be 40
 > people posting..
 >
 > the slackware one comes alive about every other week,
 >
 > alt.folklore.computers
 > blows up randomly.. the C and C++ ones in a month or so have more message
 > volume than all the bbs message nets combined for a year probably (you
 > wouldn't know it's not 1993 in there) .. i don't think i'd want that high of
 > volume going through a bbs though..
 >
 > so either not worth it, or not worth it because it'd be annoying to read
 > through? *shrug*

there's better ones than eternal september. i don't know why people even use it.  also newsgroups are mostly binaries now.   i stopped using them because
it was a pain to subscribe to an indexer site and then pay for a newsgroup
provider account.  i just use torrents.

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