15 Sep
2017
15 Sep
'17
3:44 a.m.
Don't solve a problem that doesn't exist.
Usenet access is readily and economically available. There are
enough providers that there are sites that review which is best.
Google for 'usenet providers' and see for yourself.
One I use now is eternal-september.org. It's free and offers most
Usenet newsgroups except the 'binaries' groups (which consist primarily
of copyright violations).
There is very little useful content in the amateur-related newsgroups
I've visited. For example, 'rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc' consists
almost entirely of badly-formatted partial excerpts from somebody's blog,
few entries of which have anything to do with digital.
- Brian
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 04:05:38PM +0930, Steve Fraser wrote:
I like this idea. It would help amprnet have a
"reason for existing" - a
facility that (with the decline in Usenet access), isnt readily (or
economically) available on the Internet-at-large. If there is enough
worthwhile content in the amateur-related newsgroups, and is limited to
those groups and to 44.x.x.x hosts, then such a feed could be quite
relevant.
Do we have anyone who currently has a Usenet feed who can feed into amprnet?
Steve
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> Well, sounds good to me. NNTP only over ampr, not gated to the big bad internet?
> Bill (M1BKF)