Fredxx <fredxx@spam.invalid> wrote:
> On 16/12/2023 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> > On 16/12/2023 12:47, Theo wrote:
> >> Almost 30 years ago I accessed Usenet from my BBC Micro.
> >
> > 38 since I first accessed it on on a DEC Vax...
>
> Hmm... NNTP wasn't established until 1986. Something tells me you were
> accessing something else? Were you accessing a network, or was it BBS or
> did you had access to JANET or some other MOD network?
>
> By 1985 some of us were using IBM XTs, but hey.
>
Yes, I was at BT Martlesham from some time in the late 1980s and
started discovering usenet and E-Mail back then. That's 33 years plus
a bit but 38 does seem to be pushing it a bit! :-)

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On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:12:39 +0000, Chris Green wrote:

> Fredxx <fredxx@spam.invalid> wrote:
>> On 16/12/2023 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> > On 16/12/2023 12:47, Theo wrote:
>> >> Almost 30 years ago I accessed Usenet from my BBC Micro.
>> >
>> > 38 since I first accessed it on on a DEC Vax...
>>
>> Hmm... NNTP wasn't established until 1986. Something tells me you were
>> accessing something else? Were you accessing a network, or was it BBS
>> or did you had access to JANET or some other MOD network?
>>
>> By 1985 some of us were using IBM XTs, but hey.
>>
> Yes, I was at BT Martlesham from some time in the late 1980s and started
> discovering usenet and E-Mail back then. That's 33 years plus a bit but
> 38 does seem to be pushing it a bit! :-)

Back when there was a proper Usenet archive, I found a post of mine from
1982. But whether NNTP was in use back then is another matter.

The initial NNTP RFC is dated 1986, but NNTP is based on what was used
before that; see RFC 850.

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On 16/12/2023 15:30, Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 16/12/2023 in message <ulkbl0$2ebpb$1@dont-email.me> Fredxx wrote:
>
>> On 16/12/2023 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> On 16/12/2023 12:47, Theo wrote:
>>>> Almost 30 years ago I accessed Usenet from my BBC Micro.
>>>
>>> 38 since I first accessed it on on a DEC Vax...
>>
>> Hmm... NNTP wasn't established until 1986.
So what. Usenet precedes TCP/IP by some years.

UUCP dear boy. Look it up.

The company dialled into I think the university of kent. Or maybe Holland.

Something tells me you were
>> accessing something else? Were you accessing a network, or was it BBS
>> or did you had access to JANET or some other MOD network?
>>
>> By 1985 some of us were using IBM XTs, but hey.
>

> Only millionaires, or those with company PCs. Can't have been many about
> then.
>
I had a clone around that time. NEC V20 chipset. 20Mbyte hard drive.
Good machine.

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On 15 Dec 2023 22:23:07 GMT, Tim+ <timdownieuk@yahoo.co.youkay> wrote:

>Owain Lastname <spuorgelgoog@gowanhill.com> wrote:
>> On Friday 15 December 2023 at 08:55:56 UTC, Spike wrote:
>>> Google Groups ending support for Usenet
>>> If you work with Usenet groups in Google Groups, support for these groups
>>> is ending soon.
>>> Much of the content being disseminated via Usenet today is binary (non-text)
>>> file sharing, which Google Groups does not support, as well as spam.
>>
>> It seems that most of the spam comes from Google Groups anyway.
>>
>> This may see me off the group; I currently have very limited internet
>> access and a web-based front end suits me fine. I don't want to deal with
>> large downloads and local message storage.
>>
>
>For a web based service try
>https://www.novabbs.com/aus+uk/thread.php?group=uk.d-i-y
>
>Allows quoting too.
>
>Tim

Thanks Tim. Shared elsewhere.

Nick