On 8 February 2012 01:45, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Liam Proven wrote:
and I
thought the CSA tree had died a death
now most ISPs have canned their Usenet offerings.
Not quite. Google Groups is free for all, for instance.
Please don't reccomend people use Google Groups. ?There are real Usenet
servers to be had for free as long as you don't care about the binary
newsgroups. ?There are
albasani.net and
eternal-september.org which readily
spring to mind.
What's so wrong with GGroups? It works, on any machine with a decent
web browser, anywhere; I can use it on my Windows boxes, under my
default OS of Linux and on my Macs. I have not run a local email
client in *years* - I don't really want to have to run a local news
client, either. GReader is also pretty much the handiest RSS-type news
reader I have, as well - nothing can match the cross-platform
abilities of web-based apps.
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