Subj : Re: host/ip settings
To : fusion
From : MRO
Date : Sun Apr 13 2025 01:15 pm
Re: Re: host/ip settings
By: fusion to Accession on Sun Apr 13 2025 09:31 am
> On 13 Apr 2025, Accession said the following...
>
> Ac> Either way, I recently created an account on eternal-september.org
>
> Ac> and
> Ac> subscribed to a bunch of newsgroups (BBS related, 2600 related, Fido
> Ac> (even Russian fido7 newsgroups) related) to see if there was any
> Ac> activity there. Usenet as a whole seems fairly dead, unfortunately.
>
> yeah.. unfortunately you'd have to subscribe to *everything* for about a
> month to know where activity is. it'll be empty and then there will be 40
> people posting..
>
> the slackware one comes alive about every other week,
>
> alt.folklore.computers
> blows up randomly.. the C and C++ ones in a month or so have more message
> volume than all the bbs message nets combined for a year probably (you
> wouldn't know it's not 1993 in there) .. i don't think i'd want that high of
> volume going through a bbs though..
>
> so either not worth it, or not worth it because it'd be annoying to read
> through? *shrug*
there's better ones than eternal september. i don't know why people even use it. also newsgroups are mostly binaries now. i stopped using them because
it was a pain to subscribe to an indexer site and then pay for a newsgroup
provider account. i just use torrents.
