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Alternative to Google Groups

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From: mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de (Marco Moock)
Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling
Subject: Alternative to Google Groups
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:17:20 +0100
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by: Marco Moock - Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:17 UTC

This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that
newsgroup using Google Groups.

Google will discontinue Groups in 2024.

For those who do not know Usenet:

Usenet is a distributed communication system consisting of many servers.
Google Groups is only one of them that closes down - other servers will
stay available, but people need to use another server to read and post
here.

You need to use an NNTP server with a so called newsreader.

As an NNTP server, some free services exist where you have to register:
https://www.eternal-september.org/
https://solani.org/
https://www.i2pn2.org/

For using it, you need a newsreader.

Some examples are:
https://www.thunderbird.net
https://www.betterbird.eu/
https://claws-mail.org/
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

You then need to configure a newsgroup account, sometimes also
called NNTP.

For most servers, authentication must be enforced in the newsreader's
settings.

For Thunderbird, a tutorial is available here:
https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_Usenet

For questions about configuring those readers, feel free to ask in
the group news.software.readers.

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Subject: Re: Alternative to Google Groups
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by: Simon Mason - Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:23 UTC

On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 11:17:22 AM UTC, Marco Moock wrote:

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> For questions about configuring those readers, feel free to ask in
> the group news.software.readers.

Too much spam on newsgroups these days to faff about setting up a new reader.
It's become a dead medium.

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by: JNugent - Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:53 UTC

On 19/02/2024 06:23, Simon Mason wrote:

> On Monday, February 19, 2024 at 11:17:22 AM UTC, Marco Moock wrote:
>
>> For questions about configuring those readers, feel free to ask in
>> the group news.software.readers.
>
> Too much spam on newsgroups these days to faff about setting up a new reader.
> It's become a dead medium.

Spam is pretty easy to deal with.

Out and out off-topic trolling, of the sort that you and certain other
chavs have indulged in during the recent and not so recent past, is less
straightforward.

Subject	Author
Alternative to Google Groups	Marco Moock
Re: Alternative to Google Groups	Simon Mason
Re: Alternative to Google Groups	JNugent