Just a test to see if I've got Thunderbird working.

On 27/02/2024 3:31 am, nathanael wrote:
> Just a test to see if I've got Thunderbird working.
Thunderbird has worked well for many years for me.
Alan

On 2/27/24 00:31, nathanael wrote:
> Just a test to see if I've got Thunderbird working.
Thunderbird seems to be working, but I've only seen two messages in
comp.os.cpm in a couple of weeks. Is the newsgroup dead, or is it just me?

nathanael <leekaiwen@yahoo.com> writes:

> Thunderbird seems to be working,

\o/

> but I've only seen two messages in comp.os.cpm in a couple of
> weeks. Is the newsgroup dead, or is it just me?

I've no idea yet how many GG users have not found a Usenet provider or
aren't even trying. Maybe we really have lost some important
neighbours. CP/M will stay being a nice topic and the ones having
pointers to comp.os.cpm in their CP/M websites, blogs, YT channels, GIT
repositories, ... please should update these to reflect the new
situation and point to some well known Usenet providers.
Adding/updating links to comp.os.cpm posts in blogs & Co to use a
service like <https://comp.os.cpm.narkive.com> may be useful too.

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yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
> I've no idea yet how many GG users have not found a Usenet provider or
> aren't even trying. [...]

Ah, so that's what might be happening. Sad, becuse I would not touch
GG with a ten-foot pole. Anyway, I'm still here and reading your
messages.

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Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org

On 3/10/24 22:22, yeti wrote:
> nathanael <leekaiwen@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Thunderbird seems to be working,
>
> \o/
>
>> but I've only seen two messages in comp.os.cpm in a couple of
>> weeks. Is the newsgroup dead, or is it just me?
>
> I've no idea yet how many GG users have not found a Usenet provider or
> aren't even trying. Maybe we really have lost some important
> neighbours. CP/M will stay being a nice topic and the ones having
> pointers to comp.os.cpm in their CP/M websites, blogs, YT channels, GIT
> repositories, ... please should update these to reflect the new
> situation and point to some well known Usenet providers.
> Adding/updating links to comp.os.cpm posts in blogs & Co to use a
> service like <https://comp.os.cpm.narkive.com> may be useful too.
>
Ah, is that it? Seems like half a year ago the group was still pretty
active and the dropoff in activity was fairly sudden.

I've been a comp.os.cpm reader (and, less often, postter) since its
heyday in the '80s. It will be quit a loss if it dies.

Nathanael Culver - HUMONGOUS CP/M

In article <875xxu5fqg.fsf_-_@tilde.institute>,
yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:
> nathanael <leekaiwen@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Thunderbird seems to be working,
>
> \o/
>
>> but I've only seen two messages in comp.os.cpm in a couple of
>> weeks. Is the newsgroup dead, or is it just me?
>
> I've no idea yet how many GG users have not found a Usenet provider or
> aren't even trying. Maybe we really have lost some important
> neighbours. CP/M will stay being a nice topic and the ones having
> pointers to comp.os.cpm in their CP/M websites, blogs, YT channels, GIT
> repositories, ... please should update these to reflect the new
> situation and point to some well known Usenet providers.
> Adding/updating links to comp.os.cpm posts in blogs & Co to use a
> service like <https://comp.os.cpm.narkive.com> may be useful too.
>

Some valuable participants will doubtless no longer make an appearance. But
a lot of noisy, spammy, clueless people will be gone too, since getting
proper Usenet access takes a bit of effort and/or $.

Way back when, before the first major wave of the largely unwashed, Usenet
was mostly techie (or in some groups, I suppose liberal-artsy) content, not
junk.

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