I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,
and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of Google Groups'
partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.

Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, et al, you have definitively lowered the bar of internet
discourse, and provided channels for the dissemination of anonymous hate speech,
and conspiratorial falsehoods online.

Sadly, many members and participants in Usenet and it's distributors, along with
participants in moderated subject forums, have gone the low road by abandoning
those legitimate channels of intelligent discourse, instead choosing to take their
interests into the commercial and political cesspool of "social" media.

In their place, much like the weeds coming up through cracks in the pavement of

abandoned roads, are the spammers, the bots, the hockers of illegitimate product.

I highly encourage those who care about civilized internet to see other means of

continuing their Usenet discourse, including apps devoted to providing access to

Usenet Groups.

Chris K-Man <thekmanrocks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,
>and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of Google Groups'
>partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.

I hate to tell you this, but it has a lot more to do with the million-plus
spam messages currently being injected daily by a small set of Google
customers. Or maybe one Google customer, it is hard to tell. Google is
a disaster that has done more to destroy Usenet than anything else. Everyone
is delighted to see it go.

>I highly encourage those who care about civilized internet to see other means of
>continuing their Usenet discourse, including apps devoted to providing access to
>Usenet Groups.

Apps? Just get a newsreader and an account on a legitimate news provider like
people have been telling you to do for the past decade. You will find it is
FAR more pleasant than fighting with the horrible Google Groups interface.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On 20/02/2024 01:24, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Chris K-Man <thekmanrocks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,
>> and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of Google Groups'
>> partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.
>
> I hate to tell you this, but it has a lot more to do with the million-plus
> spam messages currently being injected daily by a small set of Google
> customers. Or maybe one Google customer, it is hard to tell. Google is
> a disaster that has done more to destroy Usenet than anything else. Everyone
> is delighted to see it go.
>
I note that Chris posts via Gurgle Gropes...

Maybe he doesn't know how to use the type of app known as a news reader
or have the knowledge of how to set up an account, even when his hand is
held by the account provider and application writer.

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
>On 20/02/2024 01:24, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Chris K-Man <thekmanrocks@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,
>>> and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of Google Groups'
>>> partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.
>>
>> I hate to tell you this, but it has a lot more to do with the million-plus
>> spam messages currently being injected daily by a small set of Google
>> customers. Or maybe one Google customer, it is hard to tell. Google is
>> a disaster that has done more to destroy Usenet than anything else. Everyone
>> is delighted to see it go.
>>
>I note that Chris posts via Gurgle Gropes...
>
>Maybe he doesn't know how to use the type of app known as a news reader
>or have the knowledge of how to set up an account, even when his hand is
>held by the account provider and application writer.

People have offered to help him for several years. If he doesn't want the
help that is his business.
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 9:09:37 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> John Williamson <johnwil...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >On 20/02/2024 01:24, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >> Chris K-Man <thekma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,
> >>> and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of Google Groups'
> >>> partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.
> >>
> >> I hate to tell you this, but it has a lot more to do with the million-plus
> >> spam messages currently being injected daily by a small set of Google
> >> customers. Or maybe one Google customer, it is hard to tell. Google is
> >> a disaster that has done more to destroy Usenet than anything else. Everyone
> >> is delighted to see it go.
> >>
> >I note that Chris posts via Gurgle Gropes...
> >
> >Maybe he doesn't know how to use the type of app known as a news reader
> >or have the knowledge of how to set up an account, even when his hand is
> >held by the account provider and application writer.
> People have offered to help him for several years. If he doesn't want the
> help that is his business.
> --scott
>
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

What is so dreadful about this interface itself?

On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 9:09:37 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> John Williamson <johnwil...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >On 20/02/2024 01:24, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> >> Chris K-Man <thekma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,
> >>> and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of Google Groups'
> >>> partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.
> >>
> >> I hate to tell you this, but it has a lot more to do with the million-plus
> >> spam messages currently being injected daily by a small set of Google
> >> customers. Or maybe one Google customer, it is hard to tell. Google is
> >> a disaster that has done more to destroy Usenet than anything else. Everyone
> >> is delighted to see it go.
> >>
> >I note that Chris posts via Gurgle Gropes...
> >
> >Maybe he doesn't know how to use the type of app known as a news reader
> >or have the knowledge of how to set up an account, even when his hand is
> >held by the account provider and application writer.
> People have offered to help him for several years. If he doesn't want the
> help that is his business.
> --scott
>
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Is Eternal September available for tablets/ phones? Someone on another
newsgroup mentioned News Tap Lite

On 22/02/2024 10:59, Chris K-Man wrote:

> Is Eternal September available for tablets/ phones? Someone on another
> newsgroup mentioned News Tap Lite
>
Eternal-September can be accessed by anyone with a news reader app. You
just need to set up an account using the instructions on the web page.
You need a valid e-mail account for the verificartion stage of the
account setup procedure.

NewsTap Lite is only for iPhone and othet Apple mobile devices.

This page lists some ways to access usenet via a web browser such as the
ones on Android and Apple phines.

https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/web-usenet.html
--
Tciao for Now!

John.

On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 6:56:39 AM UTC-5, John Williamson wrote:
> On 22/02/2024 10:59, Chris K-Man wrote:
>
> > Is Eternal September available for tablets/ phones? Someone on another
> > newsgroup mentioned News Tap Lite
> >
> Eternal-September can be accessed by anyone with a news reader app. You
> just need to set up an account using the instructions on the web page.
> You need a valid e-mail account for the verificartion stage of the
> account setup procedure.
>
> NewsTap Lite is only for iPhone and othet Apple mobile devices.
>
> This page lists some ways to access usenet via a web browser such as the
> ones on Android and Apple phines.
>
> https://www.newsgroupreviews.com/web-usenet.html
> --
> Tciao for Now!
>
> John.
______

Thank you! I didn't know September was that simple.

On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:59:57 -0800 (PST), Chris K-Man
<thekmanrocks@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 9:09:37?AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> John Williamson <johnwil...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>> >On 20/02/2024 01:24, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> >> Chris K-Man <thekma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I would personally like to thank Facebook, Twitter,
>> >>> and other "social" media platforms for contributing to the end of Google Groups'
>> >>> partnership with and carrier of UseNet Newsgroups content.
>> >>
>> >> I hate to tell you this, but it has a lot more to do with the million-plus
>> >> spam messages currently being injected daily by a small set of Google
>> >> customers. Or maybe one Google customer, it is hard to tell. Google is
>> >> a disaster that has done more to destroy Usenet than anything else. Everyone
>> >> is delighted to see it go.
>> >>
>> >I note that Chris posts via Gurgle Gropes...
>> >
>> >Maybe he doesn't know how to use the type of app known as a news reader
>> >or have the knowledge of how to set up an account, even when his hand is
>> >held by the account provider and application writer.
>> People have offered to help him for several years. If he doesn't want the
>> help that is his business.
>> --scott
>>
>> --
>> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
>
>Is Eternal September available for tablets/ phones? Someone on another
>newsgroup mentioned News Tap Lite
For Android NTP News Reader 2.02APK

Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

> Apps? Just get a newsreader and an account on a legitimate news provider like
> people have been telling you to do for the past decade. You will find it is
> FAR more pleasant than fighting with the horrible Google Groups interface.

This pleasure is experienced by the remaining few dozends of readers and
writers which a typical usenet group still has.

Latter-days' followers of a worn-out pensionists' hobby. Greetings from
philately.