Thread 106830354

Welcome to the 4Chan /g usenet group Thread!


>What is /usenet/?

Open standard protocols still exist and are what the internet was built on
(http, irc, rss, ftp, etc). TNot owned by corpos, not under
govt control, and are accessible to anyone with an internet connection.
They simply exist to be built upon and enjoyed
by all.

Some, like FTP are outdated and insecure. Others, like rss, irc, http,
usenet are still glorious and wonderful open standards .
Join us and discuss such topics on one such protocol:
NNTP, aka usenet.

>WTF IS USENET
Literally it means the Users Network. It’s an open
protocol for posting and reading messages, organized by newsgroups. It's entirely decentralized, no single server, mpossible to take down.

Today it is split between, binaries and text. The
binaries part is what it’s known for today: piracy. The text part is forgotten and abandoned, until now.

>WHY POST ON USENET
Its open protocol, you can use any client you want or
build you own. No costs, no subscriptions, no money. You can sign up through your ISP, or through eternal-september.org. Then you just need to install a client.

>THIS IS OLDER THAN MY DAD. WHY TF WOULD I DO THIS?

Because its is comfy.
Because it’s decentralized. Because instead of feeding some corpo ai
bullshit like discord or whatever, you can have a conversation with like
minded anons in an uncensored, decentralized, and fun hackerman way.

>DO I HAVE TO PAY ANYTHING?
No, you can use the aforementioned eternal-september.org with any client of your choice, or use the service of newsgrouper.org to access freely online (register to post)


>OK I’M IN - WHERE DO I POST!
Join us at alt.cyberpunk.tech

WHAT CLIENT SHOULD I USE?
>Pan (gnome newsreader - Multiplat)
>Seamonkey
>Gnus for GNU Emacs
>Mozilla Thunderbird

>want to take a peek?

Online Based service @ newsgrouper.org is free and allows to post when registered. Also it can be used in any browser, even on android!

>>106830354 (OP)
Can I not access usegroups without having to use a service like eternal-september.org? It seems like most of the other services are paid. How is this a good thing?

>>106830411
As stated you can access web based for free, read and post too!

Check newsgrouper.org to just browse, or register to browse and post in your browser.

(obviously using Pan is much better!)

>>106830354 (OP)
Extra infos
===========
>This communication method is efficient and low on resources
You can literally use it on a Pentium processor and windows 95...
It's pure unadultered technology.

>Current Users
About 12 (you are welcome to spread the voice and help out!)

Ask anything that goes in your mind!

comp.misc, misc.news.internet.discuss, rec.food.cooking, these are all very active

forth, lisp, c groups very active

thinkpad and retro mac groups are active

lots of activity on usenet these days, more every day, and now that google groups isn't hooked to usenet any more all the thirdies stopped spamming it

>>106830354 (OP)
bump

>>106830354 (OP)
It looks interesting. I'll give Usenet a try at some point.

emacs gnus setup for e.g. eternal-september.org:
(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.eternal-september.org")
nntp-open-connection-function 'nntp-open-tls-stream
nntp-port-number 563
gnus-posting-styles '((".*"
(name "anon")
(address "anon@host.tld")
(reply-to "anon@host.tld"))))

>>106830847
>>106830882

https://cghmn.org/
some shit made by a furry, seems interesting

cool that alt.bbs.ads is still active

>>106830354 (OP)
seems super cozy. sent a registration request for newsgrouper. exchanging messages is so simple, usenet makes you realize how bloated the modern messaging paradigm is and how all that bloat exists for the benefit of others and not the actual users.

>>106831115
didin't expect that!

>>106830354 (OP)
This is so unfathomably comfy, you wouldn't believe it. And it's fucking digital holy ground as far as i'm concerned.

I set up an account on eternal september but it's a normie account with my actual name and email address.
What are the most active newsgroups?

>>106831275
alt.cyberpunk.tech

The rest are irrelevant.

>>106831275
check the comp. section

>>106831275
It's fine, get on the group and say hello, post news, stories, cool stuff ... Anything.

Even if binaries are not allowed, linking is.

im scared to click any of these links, let alone connect to random ip grabbing servers

>>106832102
did you not see the pictures already posted

Its strange, I can read the group, but I can't seem to reply. I mean I hit send, Betterbird says its sending, but it seems to never post.

>>106832506
try PAN That works great. Or post some more info like your conf so we can help you debug

>>106830354 (OP)
why is ur post formatted retardedly? random newlines everywhere

>>106832506
pan is garbage linux shit.

Use something like thunderbird or netsape.

Dont let retards keep you from particiating.

They want you to not understand so their secret club of retards can go on.

>>106833020
stop using retarded systems and everything is ok.

there are only 3 types of newlines..

CR/LF (dos)
CR (unix)
LF (macos roman)

if you are gonna pretent to be a UNIX user, at least know this.

>>106830354 (OP)
>OK I’M IN - WHERE DO I POST!
> Join us at alt.cyberpunk.tech
Link doesn't work.

>>106833085
Oh, I found out why I can't post. I use a newshosting account, but posting is Inactive on it. I'll need to see about getting it activated.

>>106833165
chivanet.org has both reading and posting, and it's basically idiot-proof as long as posting it doesn't summon another tard screeching about trannies like in the last thread

>>106833180
keep your tranny shit to yourself. the whole point of this is freedom, something you cant comprehend. FUCK OFF.

>>106830354 (OP)
Usecase for usenet?

I don't quite understand. Do I need to create an account? Who am I giving my personal information to?

>>106833180
Thanks that got me posting.
>>106833383
You aren't giving personal info to anybody. Just an email account will do, and for that you can use any email service you want.
Just don't use your real name or any real emails and nobody knows shit about you. The server might have your IP address, so if you're really worried use a VPN.
Anyways, yes, you need to create an account with a newshost so that you can get feeds as well as post to them.

Even more dead forums/altchans no one is ever going to visit

Isn't it owned by Google groups now don't you have to use Google groups and isn't everything just total spam, at least that's all I see when I go searching Google groups to browse old Usenet posts

Oh man you faggots are going to make me start using the lifetime subscription that I bought on black Friday about 15 years ago.

>>106833429
What is a newshost? What makes one different from another?

>>106833112
You got unix and (old) mac mixed up.
unix uses lf for EOL and (old) mac uses CR for EOL.

I’m 44 fucking years old. If you truly want to take me back to the good old days then we will do 4chan usenet/irc/doom wad deathmatch and it will be like 1994-1998 all over again

Does anyone actually use it or its as dead like most altchans/forums?
Howd the userbase, do i need to be retired to use this or is infiltratrd with retarded zoomers and political propaganda like neocities?
How censorship resistant is it, what happens when governments go after the hosts for not enforcing digital ID?
>>106830847 Now im pissed again all my XP machines died, is there a simple GUI client like that on modern Linux?
Anything else?

>>106833523
Stay away anon. We don’t want retarded assholes like you.

>>106833504
old guys. :) Mostly. Yer not alone.

>>106833429
it also gave you access to AIM and a new email, if you're interested in either
>>106833523
that's 2000, not XP

>>106830882
dont forget your ~/.authinfo
machine news.eternal-september.org login $USERNAME force yes password $S3KR1T

retard

>>106833299
less amount of such retards like you

>>106833504
40+ boomers unite
>>106833523
No it’s not dead, it’s being birthed as we speak. Come join. You think rot brained zoomers know how to work this ancient tech?
>>106833456
No one owns it. It’s an open standard protocol like RSS or http.

whoever's posting as "Anonymous", your client keeps double-posting

I've been using IRC for a while but I'm still a little retarded, so if I am having a hard time with Usenet, other people probably are too. I have heard about Usenet forever, including via IRC channels, but nobody ever really explained it like OP (thank you), though the instructions still remain a bit too obtuse. Being able to ask real questions to real people in real time is what helped me figure out IRC at first.

>>106833468
Seconding this.

suprised all the oldass microsoft.public ones still work

>>106833465
Guess that's a good thing lol

>>106834283
>>106833468
I'm glad the OP was useful.

A news provider simply allows you to read and post on newsgroups, in a way like a mail provider allows you to check and send mails.

There's a few few ones mentioned that allow that for free.

There's also those for pay that allow you to post and download binaries, but unless you are looking for piracy, they have no usecase.

>>106833504
I'm 44 too. But I was never good at Doom lol

>>106833523
Pan is like that.

>>106834523
As long it's spread on Usenet, stuff is really hard to delete, and being so underused there's no reason to kill it delete even the most old and empty group.

>>106830847
>>106830932
>>106831936
>namefags
This won't get insufferable quickly.

>>106830847
>>106830932
>>106831936
>namefags
This won't get insufferable quickly.

>>106834953
It'll work fine, it self filters idiots like you.
Are you going to keep up going at this?

I mean it's ok and it's basically a free bump, so keep it up.

>>106835061
Where do you think we are?

>>106835061
>>106835120
stop samefagging

bump

>>106830354 (OP)
People still use this shit?

>>106835834
Yeah why shouldn't they?

It serves its purpose beautifully.

>>106830354 (OP)
Get your neuralinks ready, jack into the matrix and bump this post

Now do IRC, XMPP and PGP encrypted email.

It's almost as if this shit was solved 30 years ago and we let corpos ruin it all.

>>106837170
Honestly an updated IRC would really be sweet.
But it's been actually still in use even now.

It's incredible how enduring and lasting are such old technology that just work

>>106837170
>>106837789
I used to spend so much time on IRC man. It was great making a community. We used to play MTG via IRC and it was all honor system.
Had a DND group on it too, though that kind of ended in disaster after the DM went turbo-railroad.

I don't see the purpose and have no intrest in another subscription service even if it's free.
Why can't I just directly connect something like thunderbird to the domain?

>>106838269
Think of it like an indexer. You can't get what groups and posts to those groups exists without an index of those groups.
So you have to connect to some sort of newshost to pull them. Whether that's Eternal September or Chivanet or whatever. And if you want to post to those groups you need an account to process that post.
However, there are totally free and accountless newsreader sources you can use if you just want to read. For instance Narkive: https://alt.cyberpunk.tech.narkive.com/
This can read and show the current newsgroup we've been posting to. You can't post via this, but you can read it.

>>106837789
I use it pretty extensively currently - slack is a sad excuse for IRC.

Old tech was layer 7 as it was supposed to be. "New tech" is just an API gateway to hell.

>like
>minded anons
Cool, I don't think I will find them on usenet though lmao. I assume to many old and ancient people there is no similarity.

>>106833112
>if you are gonna pretent to be a UNIX user
where is this projection coming from? who gives a rats ass what you call the thing that renders a new line on the screen. its an implementation detail that is irrelevant. im so sorry for not knowing the archaic type-writer terminology of a linefeed and carriage return. im not 80 years old. youre an imbecile and a pedant

>>106838528
There's no one left of the old guard. alt.cyberpunk.tech was abandoned.
Feels like pic related.

>join usenet to exclusively talk about the good old times when usenet was actually alive (and most of us weren't even alive, or where toddlers)
Just why

>>106838860
No one does that.

-Some messages show up as gobbldy-gook, How do I fix that? Do certain clients only allow certain encoding or something?
-Is there a newsgroup database I can search besides manually sifting through the equivalent of a list of URLs? By interest, or tags, or something useful like that.

>named chat
I'm good. Anonymous imageboards are the superior discussion platform. Chats with identity are always created and ruled by psychopathic revenge-of-the-nerd powertrippers. I want to discuss technology, not ecelebs.

>>106839486
big difference: all of us have the same amount of power on it

>>106838269
Like for email you need an email server access, you need a news server access for newsgroups.

It's totally the same!

>>106839486
There's no owners or mods if that concerns you

>>106838919
If you use pan you can search the newsgroups by words. Be aware most places are dead

>>106830485
>You can literally use it on a Pentium processor and windows 95...
Why would I want to interact with third worlders?
Every jeet on the planet having access to a smart phone and being able to respond to me is why the Internet is so shit in 2016+9

>>106839876
because they don't use it, retard

>>106830847
I am impressed, this is the greatest return since Lazarus.

>>106834952 >>106834953
Not a problem, Usenet News had a lot of pseudonymous users it its heydays and it was just fine.

>>106838685
>There's no one left of the old guard.
Some remain...
>alt.cyberpunk.tech was abandoned.
That was never a very active group, most tech talk was in alt.cyberpunk itself.

my only experience with usenet before this was seeing those old usenet.nl ads when i didn't know about adblock

>>106834953
>>106839486
Ironic, because the decline in post quality here correlates heavily with the amount of namefags. Actual name/tripfags are extremely rare nowadays compared to how it used to be but the site is worse than it ever was. It's like twitter ecelebs filled the void that they left.

>>106840419
also the amount of phone posters

>>106830354 (OP)
>entirely decentralized, no single server, mpossible to take down.
>need to sign up through a governing entity
Something here doesn't add up.

>>106830882
Life saver

>>106840000
Looks like a death metal cover mixed with pc ads of the 90s lol

>>106840922
Governing entity? Elaborate.

>>106840999
>You can sign up through your ISP, or through eternal-september.org.

>>106839831
Then why is registration required?

>>106834952
>>106834953
Nooooooo, now people will just ignore the utter garbage I spew daily by association

>>106841016
Don't you need a mail server to read your mails?
You register to your mail server the same way

>>106839593
>>106839831
>everyone has the same power
Not socially. I'm sure there's some normal people too, but you'll always have some annoying faggot that gathers all power and becomes an e-clique leader, and if you don't suck xer off and pledge allegience to them you get functionally frozen out of the discussion. It all becomes teenage girl ingroup drama bullshit.

>>106841180
No one claimed my mail server was decentralized with no owner.

Welp, I hope this won't be filled with weirdos

>>106830882
This is what ended upworking for me:
(setq gnus-select-method
'(nntp "news.eternal-september.org"
(nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-ssl-stream)
(nntp-port-number 563)))

(setq gnus-posting-styles
'((".*"
(name "mylogin")
(address "mail@mail.com")
(reply-to "mail@mail.com"))))

idk for some reason your version didn't work ?

>>106833942
Btw emacs works very well with gpg, I just had to create the file as ~/.authinfo.gpg for emacs to prompt me for the key to encrypt the file with
>force yes
Couldn't get it to work until I added this, so thanks

>>106833383
go to eternal-september.org to create an account
Im just discovering this and it seems so fun lmao it's like exploring ruins

>>106841006
You can also set up your own NNTP server and peer with at least one other node.

>>106839831
so i can just spam the n word over and over to my hearts content?

>>106841804
if that's what you want to do

>>106841804
If people like you plan to join I can already tell I'm gonna like it

>>106841465
>go to eternal-september.org to create an account

I did this, but can't figure out how to actually view anything.

>>106843403
So it's not a website you're using. You only used Eternal September to sign up. You need the equivalent of something like what Outlook does for emails (and IRC clients for IRC, etc), except now you need a client for newsgroups. So, from the OP:
>You can sign up through ... eternal-september.org. >Then you just need to install a client.
Then you input the relevant info into the client and you're off to the races.

or I guess Newsgrouper.org instead of client, but I didn't do that

>>106841804
I see no point in doing that, but yeah if that's the best you can contribute with

>>106843494
News grouper works really well but you get manually approved to post so v it can take some time.

Reading is free out of the box no registration needed

Group is growing, i approve of this.

>>106830354 (OP)
usenet group sounds like fun, see you there.

>>106846871
Looking forward
>>106846528
It's indeed amazing!

>>106830354 (OP)
I wish anyone actually used this for something other than piracy

its just a discord group but with a snowflake client

>>106848107
retard

>>106848268
the users are made up of discordfags
usenet relies on its users not to be trash just like old mmos. you cant play new mmos today because current users are trash.

>>106848338
>>106848107
>le discord boogeyman

>>106847443
We are building something there come check in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders
https://alpineapp.email/
Alpine has binaries for Windows as far back as XP, in addition to Loonix and picrel.

>>106848107
Discord has an arbitration clause, NNTP doesn't have it

>>106848802
XP has built-in newsgroup support through Outlook Express, it's the easiest way to get in

Usenet noob here so someone please explain. If I add a newsgroup to Thunderbird for example, will I read the news from a remote or will I download everything? How does it work?

>>106849527
>If I add a newsgroup to Thunderbird for example, will I read the news from a remote or will I download everything?
Your newsreader client will download everyting in every subscribed newsgroup that exists in the spool of that server. For capacity reasons, old articles are deleted, though retention time is far longer than in here.
>How does it work?
it is (and started out as) a distributed message board.
https://www.usenet.com/usenet-faq/

>>106849527
Obviously you'll also have to search and add the groups you are interested in.

>>106849909
some newsgroups have messages from 20+ years ago, it really depends on the group

>>106850077
True, and that is normal for very low traffic newsgroups. Since it is text only, a 1 TB drive will keep an impressive record, more so if you can weed out the spam.

Very intelligent thread.

>>106831136

Felt the same way. It feels like home. A warm sensation of technology used for good, without layers and layers of deceit on top of it.

Messaging boards should have never deviated from this.

The way threads are displayed all in a list is so much better than having one random post after the next based on if the algorithm was on it's period that day (twitter and other shitty user interfaces like those)

Reminds me of the old vBulletin boards.

How we went from this to the cancer that is instagram just shows how shitty modern society is.

Anyone use slrn? When I post I get an 'error writing to server' error, and yet it seems like my posts go through anyways.

Not sure if I'm missing some sort of configuration.

Still trying to find a client that's easy enough for a dummy like me to set up.

>>106851305
Seamonkey has a news client, and so does Betterbird.

>>106851305
>Still trying to find a client that's easy enough for a dummy like me to set up.
Pan is trivial to setup

>>106851343
>compile from source
>trivial

I have never successfully compiled any open source software from source in my life.

>>106851332
Trying seamonkey, but can't see anything but eternal-september.* groups, even after forcing authentication.

>>106851737
I installed it via arch AUR. Worked out of the box. Don't know what to tell you.

>>106841514
This is legitimately just gay in an era of much better protocols.

Just use something like matrix or jitsi with video disabled

>>106851999
Look at all the effort anons have to go to to fucking post a N.
Jitsi is literally just a link then type in a username

>>106851999
>>106852007
>incapable of following basic instructions
also reminder that they require a phone number

>>106830354 (OP)
how is my IPenis handled with usenet? will it be exposed?

>>106851737
On windows there's the installer on Linux... You take use Linux and can't compile stuff?

>acronyms
Dunno what ya'll are on about.

>>106851737
Same.
I imagine most people who looked into Pan thought this same thing but didn't want to admit being dumb and whine, me included. I don't know a darn thing about that stuff, so I skipped it and went with easymodo SeaMonkey. Would still like to unlock the swathes of programs which only offer compiley versions though.

Ya'll 1337 h4xx0rz gotta remember you are dealing with microsofties and iStore tards. Yous perhaps take your skills and experience for granted, or worse, gatekeep. This ancient stuff is largely an impenetrable esoteric ritual which only the ivory tower priest class knows about; the plebians get by with the lowest hanging fruit and need to be guided on the basics.

>>106848107
This.
>>106849351
Irrelevant in practice. Unlike you're use case is sharing child porn and spamming the word "nigger" over and over.
>>106848338
Show a screenshot of a single discussion that proves it's any different from what already goes on in countless discords and here.

Usenet is a baby duck, plain and simple. I hope you enjoy it, though.

>>106854478
*Unless

>>106854478
*your

Careful

This will fail, you all will get doxed.

>>106854708
Okay.

>>106854637
Of what exactly? Of the scary Germans? Of your jealously kept dynamic IP?

You think you are not responsible for what you say in your life?

>>106848107
Hilarious. Discord users would not get a client up and running.

meow

For Linux users, trn can be recommended. Very handy for high speed reading a news feed.

>>106841132
you're genuinely retarded if you think anonymity isn't a huge draw for everyone who uses 4chan
you might as well just make a reddit account and post there if you're concerned with user accountability.

>>106856105
>join us on usenet
>we have:
>usernames
>consequences

>>106856105
Ursula Haverbeck wanted to tell the truth.

>>106858498
You think you are "really" anonymous on 4chan?

>>106858838
To most people, yes.

>>106845031
Wait really? No one can ban you off this thing?

>>106858838
To be fair you nearly as anonymous on reddit since accounts can be had in seconds, it's extremely low effort as far as such things go.

>>106858938
True. Instead people use kill-files at the end points, usually with clients.

One of the conventions back in the day, was to post the newsgroup FAQ at regular intervals.
There is the /cyb/ FAQ but also the /ham/ FAQ and the /sec/ career FAQ.

meow

Why not just use nntpchan based on the same thing.
https://github.com/nntpchan/nntpchan/

>>106860041
usenet has been around forever, and is likely to stay around forever.
Or as the kids would say, usenet is "lindy" (and fly-by-night altchans are not)

>>106860041
It could be good, but it's a Chan again. Better than 4chan and a step in the right direction but does it have an infrastructure as stable, reliable and enduring even after, 20 or 30 years?

>>106858627
And what "truth" is that exactly.

>>106858938
Your usenet host can, but you can always move to another

so which network are you guys on?
https://cdn.rexum.space/usenet/Usenet%20Providers%20and%20Backbones%20%28Version%202025-06-30%29.svg

>>106856105
im out

>>106863574
We are lucky and celebrating!

>>106831136
Well my registration on newsgrouper hasn't gone through yet... Do you think the operator of that site was put off by my @cumallover.me cockli email address? It did say registrations are processed manually...

>>106854637
>>106858498
>>106863574
>>106858528
Looks like there are ways to use Usenet anonymously. Check out alt.privacy.anon-server
I just skimmed some threads there, but from what I gather they use "anonymous remailers" and/or something called YAMN and OmniMix.. Idk, I was just poking around when this thread was posted the other day

why is an email address necessary just to get on the old internet???

>>106830545
>no thirdies
I'm sold, getting on now.

how do I add the server to Pan?

>>106833142
this!
>>106833153
it doesn't work you dunce faggot

on a related topic, what are some decent irc servers i could join? is there a catalog/ im interested in more of these classic net spaces since the modern web is being progressivley filled with bots / rajesh

>>106865298
after you have your server access, just search for alt.cyberpunk.tech and subscribe.

It's not a link, obviously.

>>106865230
it should be already in the big server list, just search for it

>>106865646
what server should I add? I tried news.eternal-september.org:563 but nothing happened. it just keeps saying "connecting".

>>106865681
make sure you check to use TLS in the bottom of the newsgroup server setup

>>106830354 (OP)
Wow that was a pain in the ass on Windows, Thunderbird didnt want to load the full group list even after prompting me for a password with my eternal-september account. Seamonkey werked first try tho.

>>106865738
got it. how to add newsgrouper as a server in Pan?

>>106865404
You might be surprised to find some site or service you use regularly, actually has an IRC channel already. And do not underestimate the value of being a trendsetter; set your quit message to your own server/channel, and bring it up in relevant convos. You can populate your own channel relatively quickly, if it has a personality and legs. But if you have nothing, obviously nobody will keep coming.

You can whois people to see their other channels. And even just talk to people for recommendations. You can also manually see every channel that exists on a server with /list, and I think even sort them based on user amount.

For finding channels, I found many via simply searching online for topic+IRC channel. Using search engines besides The Big One helps. There was a kind-of exodus many years ago, and many people switched from Rizon (I think?) to Libera or others, so seeking defunct Rizon channels on Libera (or others) often yields results.

jfc Pan sucks ass thru a straw. how the fuck you respond to a fucking thread on that shit?

>>106866160
just select the message and click on the followup button

>>106866209
ah 'followup' means "Reply". thanks anon

not anonymous, your email is registered and can be tracked,

>>106866346
this. 4chan using Tor is by far way more anonymous than using usenet

>>106866346
>using your real email

>>106830354 (OP)
Looks like it works on thunderbird, but i had to do some small shit to make it work

>>106866747
It doesn't matter if it's real or not. It's fingerprinted

>>106866973
Congrats and welcome in

>>106866973
>thunderbird
Might want to try Betterbird.

>>106830354 (OP)
>eternal-september.org
>site is so slow it's giving me dial-up flashbacks

Kino of the highest order.

>>106866973
What did you have to do? I added it to thunderbird but it just says it can't connect to the server.

>>106868026
Tried ping to the server to see if it is reachable form your machine?

All the support desk shit in here tells you all you need to know
What a joke
>>106852829
Lies from a fat neckbeard - The worst kind of lies
It used to be anyone could create a meeting room on Jitsi but now the moderator needs a google or github account because pedos discovered it, no one else needs an account.

>>106868405
why the fuck are you even here if not to be a shill

>>106867501
Do you remember the excitement of going from 2400 baud to 9600 baud on your modem?

>>106867501
>eternal-september.org
Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingdingding

>>106870005
To 14.4 was huge for me.

I don't remember the hayes commands anymore lol. You had to put a ridiculously long string into terminal programs.

ZMODEM anyone? lol.
KERMIT?

>>106870186
ATDT followed by a phone number is what i remember.

Group is growing stronger

The only people who are going to use this shit are fucking boomers, why would I want to get into a group with those fuckers? The only good boomer is a dead boomer.

>>106871281
Thank you for pushing the thread fren, helps us grow

What's the oldest continuously updated thread on usenet? By continuously updated let's say we mean last post within a year.

>>106867501
I haven't tried it yet, but here's another free usenet service:
https://www.solani.org/

>>106871126
True, it's going on well!
>>106871281
And it's also self cleansing by filtering out idiots
>>106871600
In F1 Motorsport groups they have posts for every race and for news

>>106871281
Am 36, so technically a boomer by your standards, but honestly if it gatekeeps your kin away, that's actually an advantage, not a con.

>>106870053
did you have a 14.4k or 56k dialup modem, anon?

For me it's alt.fan.adolf-hitler

People keep bringing up age-ism, and I qualitfy as old, so I feel compelled to chime in. In being introduced to Usenet here for the first time, I have been thinking how: I actually don't want to talk in an echo chamber of like-minded old-fogie peers. I like being surprised and challenged by new perspectives, it keeps the mind sharp. I personally don't get really worked up over mole hills which others seem to make into mountains. To me, being exposed to new things is more valuable than being put off by minor differences. Usually if somebody isn't solely a smartphone drone, and are cool enough to use something like IRC or usenet etc, they are already a cool person. The rest are naturally filtered, as has been noted, and will just keep squeaking into their preschool toy walled garden echo chambers.

>>106873266
Sage

Has anyone been able to sign up via newsgrouper?

This is me btw: >>106864605

>>106874390
Yup in a couple of hours I was on

How does this forum avoid bots from posting there?

>>106875279
There's server protection, it's so small no one cares to make bots for it and you can filter users/bots

>>106875279
Security by obscurity. Usenet News was overrun by spam, people left and there were nobody left to spam. So the spammers left.

>>106868085
It's not.. I can ping other usenet servers, like news.fastusenet.org, but not alt.cyberpunk.tech.

>>106868085
>>106876808
well I am retarded, eternal-september.org is the server. duh.

>>106876859
Well many are no longer used to setup such settings, in any case it's great you managed it!

>>106830354 (OP)
What's the preferred android app?

>>106877798
honestly i think accessing through web is the best way on android

>>106830354 (OP)
>hijacking abandoned usenet groups to get away from it all

10/10, it's been a while since I've seen /g/ be on bullshit like this

>>106876284
So it's all just a vicious cycle. I'll check it out once I'm done with work today but it sounds like there is no guaranteed escape from browns bots and all

>>106877798
>he's not accessing it through emacs or a terminal client for maximum l33t haxxoring sensation

ngmi

Only thing needed now is a new FTP server.

>>106878062
Firs off, the volume of people is close to insignificant. Secondly, a collection of ASD does not a good customer base make, rather this can be dangerous. Even back in the day, people calle din the utilities to have stuff disconnected - on behalf of the spammers.

>>106830354 (OP)
how do I get in through thunderbird?

>>106878905
Official documentation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/creating-newsgroup-account

Or ask ChatGPT. You need to make an account at eternal september before

Fuck it, I'm bored anyways

>>106879264
ok I made the account and I added news.eternal-september.org to thunderbird, now what

>>106880201
Step 1: Read the official documentation i linked.
Step 2: Try what the documentation says, using the account information that you created and the eternal september server

>>106830354 (OP)
Just set up XanaNews. Works well and open source.
https://github.com/graemeg/xananews

>>106878267
Termux?

>>106876284
We need media that the neighborhood burghers can rely on. The Roman church is going to overwhelm that place as soon as they catch wind of culture brewing

How do I make my own channel?
I think it would benefit from a gachaslop channel, though I doubt many boomers are into that

>>106880997
I think you'd have to set up your own server to get the group going and if you wanted anons posting from e.g. Eternal September you'd have to find the admin and ask him to add you to his list of peers, otherwise everybody would have to go straight to you over the internet.

>>106830354 (OP)
>4C
nigger

>>106881122
That makes sense
On second thought, there wouldn't really be anything stopping me from just hijacking a dead group and hoping someone comes across the message, would there? Maybe I'll throw something into the dark

>>106880997
Haven't tried it myself, but it seems easy to create one under alt.*
https://www.livinginternet.com/u/ua_alt.htm
https://grahammitchell.com/usenet/newalt.html

>>106880545
Never heard of it, got any screenshots of it? I may add to the FAQ

>>106830354 (OP)
**ATTENTION EVERYONE OP IS A PEDOPHILE AND USES THIS GROUP TO SHARE ILLEGAL MATERIAL**

**JANNIES DELETE **

>>106882225
Glowies going mad they just lost control. Thanks for bumping

>>106882225
?

>>106882334
REPORTED TO THE FBI YOU STUPID FUCKING NIGGER. YOU THINK YOU CAN SHARE CHILD PORN WITH IMPUNITY. WELL GUESS WHAT YOU FUCKING PEDO

**ATTENTION EVERYONE OP IS A PEDOPHILE AND USES THIS GROUP TO SHARE ILLEGAL MATERIAL**

**JANNIES DELETE **

**ATTENTION EVERYONE OP IS A PEDOPHILE AND USES THIS GROUP TO SHARE ILLEGAL MATERIAL**

**JANNIES DELETE **

**ATTENTION EVERYONE OP IS A PEDOPHILE AND USES THIS GROUP TO SHARE ILLEGAL MATERIAL**

**JANNIES DELETE **

**ATTENTION EVERYONE OP IS A PEDOPHILE AND USES THIS GROUP TO SHARE ILLEGAL MATERIAL**

**JANNIES DELETE **

OP, I worry about the quality of users you are attracting by making threads here. It will be interesting to see if Usenet will get infected by the same elements present here.

>>106882528
Kek, you are sad. Henlo FBI Frens, how is it glowing?

>>106882588
The great thing about usenet is that the setup is trivial but just complicated enough to filter schizos like these.

> Over time, the original, truly decentralized model of Usenet evolved. It became difficult to maintain a consistent, high-quality network with so many independent servers. Commercial entities stepped in to create "backbone" servers. These are incredibly powerful, interconnected servers that hold the majority of Usenet content and handle the bulk of the traffic.

> These backbone servers are not open to the public. The companies that run them restrict access. They require authentication and charge for the service.

A re-centralized protocol? No thanks

>>106882588
OP here. Not worried, these people are too stupid to get in and even if a smarter guy helped that idiot he could at most post subs bullshit and be filtered by users.

>>106882902
Theory. There's options.

And you could run your own if you wanted to

>>106882902
That's talking about binary servers, which need to transfer hundreds of terabytes every day.
Text-only servers don't have this issue.