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* USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix *
* Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age *
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Liam Proven - Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC

The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green
shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.

<https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/>

Thumbs up!

On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 05:35:43 -0400, Yamn Remailer <remailer@domain.invalid> wrote:
>***********************************************************************
>* USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix *
>* Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age *
>***********************************************************************
>Liam Proven - Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC
>The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green
>shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
><https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/>
>Thumbs up!

it's no joke... Usenet has been resurrected from the gloomy underworld

(using Tor Browser 12.5.3 w/o bridges to open this "theregister" link)
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/
>USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
>105 comment bubble on white
>Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age
>Liam Proven
>Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC
>The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green shoots
>of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
>USENET, or NetNews, is a text-only social discussions forum, or rather a
>set of a great many forums, called "newsgroups," carried by multiple servers
>around the world. Although the original developers closed down their instance
>in 2010, that was just one server out of hundreds, and many are still running
>just fine. It never went away -- it's still alive, you can get on it for free,
>and there is a choice of client apps for most OSes to help you navigate.
>Although USENET is a decentralized, peer-to-peer network, the Big-8 board is
>the closest thing it has to a central governing authority. Board member
>Tristan Miller told The Reg: "Jason Evans and I re-established the Board in
>2020, after a long period of dormancy. We were joined a few months later by
>Rayner Lucas."
>Among other things, the board manages the list of newsgroups, and now that
>there's an active board again, it has been busy. It deleted some very old
>groups at the moderators' request, and added the first new newsgroup in many
>years for the Gemini protocol. If you have a News client,
>news:comp.infosystems.gemini ought to open it. The board has also revamped
>the website, run a Reddit Ask Me Anything session, updated the GNU Stump and
>WebStump packages used by moderators, and more.
>USENET is older than the web, and works more like email: servers carry a list
>of newsgroups, and sync messages with each other.
>(One of the things that contributed to the downfall of USENET was when people
>worked out how to post binary files, encoded as multi-part blocks of ASCII
>text. It still has piracy problems but you can just ignore that stuff. It was
>also the venue for the first spam message in internet history.)
>Getting online is pretty easy. Get an account on a USENET server. Install a
>client, tell it the server address. Download the list of groups, subscribe to
>some, and new messages get delivered to your client. That's it.
>The Reg FOSS desk uses a service called Eternal September, after the event
>when AOL added USENET access to its internet client and tens of thousands of
>newbies flooded in without knowing the rules. We'll give you one hint:
>scrupulously follow the "netiquette" of plain-text, bottom-posted email.
>Eternal September only carries text groups, no binaries, but it offers
>totally free accounts, whereas some higher-capacity servers such as Eweka or
>Giganews charge for access.
>As for a client -- well, as we mentioned when introducing their new ESR
>versions, we use Thunderbird. It's free, it works, and it runs on all the big
>desktop OSes. There are lots out there, though. Even Google Groups is still
>alive, if woefully neglected.
>As a big science fiction reader, this vulture enjoys dipping into
>rec.arts.sf.written and rec.arts.sf.fandom. The computer history group
>alt.folklore.computers is still pretty busy. There is life in several
>retrocomputing channels, and we've been enjoying talking about Acorn RISC OS
>and Fortran among other things.(r)
[end quote]

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* Woke activists secretly target Usenet for new censorship model. *
* *
* "Anyone we don't like is a Nazi, and will be silenced!" *
* *
* "Your opinion is racism, because I said so!" *
* *
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Woke infiltrators are attempting to broker back-room talks with
the Usenet Big8 board to stage an eventual pretext for enforcing
new Usenet censorship models.

Usenet has enjoyed a decades-long track record as haven for free
speech. The woke militia has plans to change that.

On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 05:35:43 -0400
Yamn Remailer <remailer@domain.invalid> wrote:

> ***********************************************************************
> * USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
> *
> * Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age
> *
> ***********************************************************************
>
> Liam Proven - Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC
>
> The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green
> shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
>
> <https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/>
>
> Thumbs up!
>

On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 05:21:56 -0700, Woke Militia <s@j.w> wrote:
> *******************************************************************
> * Woke activists secretly target Usenet for new censorship model. *
> * "Anyone we don't like is a Nazi, and will be silenced!" *
> * "Your opinion is racism, because I said so!" *
> *******************************************************************
> Woke infiltrators are attempting to broker back-room talks with
> the Usenet Big8 board to stage an eventual pretext for enforcing
> new Usenet censorship models.
> Usenet has enjoyed a decades-long track record as haven for free
> speech. The woke militia has plans to change that.

43 years later ... they might try holding a seance using a ouija board?

On 2023-09-02, Yamn Remailer <remailer@domain.invalid> wrote:
> ***********************************************************************
> * USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix *
> * Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age *
> ***********************************************************************
>
> Liam Proven - Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC
>
> The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green
> shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
>
><https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/>
>
> Thumbs up!
>

Nice, considering other niche groups, and ourself created a inn server
for usenet recently and are attracting members of our colective, friends
and other old school and new school hackers and tinkers I am
not that surprised but I am happy about it.

ReK2
Happy Hacking

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In article <ue0409$10o08$2@matrix.hispagatos.org>
rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
>
> On 2023-09-02, Yamn Remailer <remailer@domain.invalid> wrote:
> > ***********************************************************************
> > * USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix *
> > * Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age *
> > ***********************************************************************
> >
> > Liam Proven - Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC
> >
> > The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green
> > shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
> >
> ><https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/>
> >
> > Thumbs up!
> >
>
> Nice, considering other niche groups, and ourself created a inn server
> for usenet recently and are attracting members of our colective, friends
> and other old school and new school hackers and tinkers I am
> not that surprised but I am happy about it.
>
>
> ReK2
> Happy Hacking

Quit smoking the weed and once more you'll see the reality of a dead
Usenet.

The only ones left are those with no civility who cannot last in a
moderated Web forum and the tech dullards who cannot converse with
anyone else except another tech dullard. The real techs are on the
Web, not the pretend ones still on Usenet.

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D <J@M> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 05:35:43 -0400, Yamn Remailer <remailer@domain.invalid> wrote:
> >***********************************************************************
> >* USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix *
> >* Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age *
> >***********************************************************************
> >Liam Proven - Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC
> >The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green
> >shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
> ><https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/>
> >Thumbs up!
>
> it's no joke... Usenet has been resurrected from the gloomy underworld
> ....

BBBbut I LIKE a gloomy underworld!

Paranoid Pete

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On Sat, 23 Sep 2023 22:23:08 +0200, Paranoid Pete <Paranoid_Pete@hidden.invalid> wrote:
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>In article <c23412c8cd8f0ba5265b72ee4b08f052@dizum.com>
>D <J@M> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 05:35:43 -0400, Yamn Remailer <remailer@domain.invalid> wrote:
>> >***********************************************************************
>> >* USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix *
>> >* Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age *
>> >***********************************************************************
>> >Liam Proven - Wed 30 Aug 2023 // 14:27 UTC
>> >The USENET management committee has reconvened and there are green
>> >shoots of growth in the original, pre-World Wide Web social network.
>> ><https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/>
>> >Thumbs up!
>>
>> it's no joke... Usenet has been resurrected from the gloomy underworld
>> ....
>
>BBBbut I LIKE a gloomy underworld!
>Paranoid Pete

it's restful and adventurous in the umbra, looking up at the new earth
while "supputant presque autant des aduentures du temps aduenir, comme
des eages passez, comprenant de present"-a paraphrase from the epistle