10 Sep
2017
10 Sep
'17
7:20 p.m.
On 9/6/2017 3:36 PM, Brian Kantor wrote:
Usenet feeds come from neighbors - it's a
distributed flooding mesh.
UCSD's feeds are Stanford, who will probably shut down their USENET
service in a short while, and CMU, whose status I don't know. You can
get a feed from eternal-september.org, according to their web site, but
I've never tried.
USENET is obsolete. Don't waste your time on it.
Say it ain't so!
PLEASE don't say Usenet is obsolete. I used to be on the BIG-8 board! I
once wrote a tutorial for users of KA9Q NOS, on how to enter nntp posts
using Telnet to port 119! I was attending Northeastern University when
the IS department retired their home-grown message board in favor of the
new Usenet paradigm. Hell, I remember when the Eternal September started!
As fortune would have it, I'm the Moderator of The Telecom Digest, which
predates Usenet but is now available on the comp.dcom.telecom newsgroup.
Usenet is an old friend, and I don't want to think it's obsolete: it
makes me feel old.
Oh, well: only Nixon could go to China, and only the author of nntp can
say Usenet is obsolete. I guess I'll learn to adapt.
Bill, W4EWH
Please don't say that USENET is obsolete: it makes me feel old.