18 Apr
2012
18 Apr
'12
6:40 p.m.
On 04/18/2012 02:02 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
It's a little better nowadays, as much of the traffic has left Usenet
as the knowledgeable people have died and the n00bs have flocked to web
forums.
One could set up alt.classiccmp, though, and I'm certain that'd be
fine. I have a newsfeed here; I could do a mail->news gateway.
FWIW, Thunderbird makes a really good newsreader. I was surprised at
how good it is for that.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
And I prefer
NNTP ("Usenet"). Still wondering when classiccmp will be
available there... NNTP is much more suited to fora like this one than
SMTP.
Administering NNTP is slightly more complicated than administering SMTP
(speaking as one who has done both). There is the further issue of
placement of a newsgroup within a hierarchy. The probable consensus
among the Powers That Be would be that alt.folklore.computers already
exists and that therefore a new group is unnecessary (never mind that
a.f.c. has become a swamp of never-ending political and quasipolitical
arguments, often started by some clown baiting a former DEC employee who
cannot not rise to the bait).