On 12/14/23 2:22 PM, erik simpson wrote:
> An old group (rec.bicycles.racing) has transitioned to Facebook,
> quite successfully. It' a thought. Or you can find a new
> client/server combo that works for you. Or we can just quit.
> There's less and less interesting stuff happening as time goes on,
> and the audience is very small and strange.

> We're even smaller than the "other group" I also posted this. The
> conversations here are much more interesting, and I'm interested in
> continuing. Suggestions?
I use Thunderbird with Giganews. I find it adequate.

John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/23 2:22 PM, erik simpson wrote:
>> An old group (rec.bicycles.racing) has transitioned to Facebook,
>> quite successfully. It' a thought. Or you can find a new
>> client/server combo that works for you. Or we can just quit.
>> There's less and less interesting stuff happening as time goes on,
>> and the audience is very small and strange.
>
>> We're even smaller than the "other group" I also posted this. The
>> conversations here are much more interesting, and I'm interested in
>> continuing. Suggestions?
> I use Thunderbird with Giganews. I find it adequate.
>
But we don’t get the benefit of spam filtering found with Eternal September
from what I’ve heard. I thought of messing with E-S alongside Giganews but
haven’t had the motivation.

Anyone on an Apple device can use NewsTap as a reader. There is a free and
paid version. It’s not bad IMO. On my iPhone now.

On 12/14/23 3:15 PM, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
> John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12/14/23 2:22 PM, erik simpson wrote:
>>> An old group (rec.bicycles.racing) has transitioned to Facebook,
>>> quite successfully. It' a thought. Or you can find a new
>>> client/server combo that works for you. Or we can just quit.
>>> There's less and less interesting stuff happening as time goes on,
>>> and the audience is very small and strange.
>>
>>> We're even smaller than the "other group" I also posted this. The
>>> conversations here are much more interesting, and I'm interested in
>>> continuing. Suggestions?
>> I use Thunderbird with Giganews. I find it adequate.
>>
> But we don’t get the benefit of spam filtering found with Eternal September
> from what I’ve heard. I thought of messing with E-S alongside Giganews but
> haven’t had the motivation.

You can set up a filter in Thunderbird. I've filtered out all the nyms
used by the spammer, so I don't see any of those posts unless he tries a
new nym.

> Anyone on an Apple device can use NewsTap as a reader. There is a free and
> paid version. It’s not bad IMO. On my iPhone now.
>

On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 7:47:32 PM UTC-5, erik simpson wrote:
> On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 2:39:59 PM UTC-8, John Harshman wrote:
> > On 12/14/23 2:22 PM, erik simpson wrote:
> > > An old group (rec.bicycles.racing) has transitioned to Facebook,
> > > quite successfully. It' a thought. Or you can find a new
> > > client/server combo that works for you. Or we can just quit.
> > > There's less and less interesting stuff happening as time goes on,
> > > and the audience is very small and strange.
> >
> > > We're even smaller than the "other group" I also posted this. The
> > > conversations here are much more interesting, and I'm interested in
> > > continuing. Suggestions?
> > I use Thunderbird with Giganews. I find it adequate.
> I've just had a frustrating go-around with Giganews, where I couldn't
> establish a working Id/password combination. I'll try again tomorrow,
> keeping a record or each line I send.

Giganews? New dinosaurid?

I liked this article at The Conversation about a cave with pictures that may link to Egypt, Borneo & Madagascar's extinct sloth lemur:
https://groups.io/g/1WorldofWords/message/125

On 12/14/23 14:39, John Harshman wrote:
> On 12/14/23 2:22 PM, erik simpson wrote:
>> An old group (rec.bicycles.racing) has transitioned to Facebook,
>> quite successfully.  It' a thought.  Or you can find a new
>> client/server combo that works for you.  Or we can just quit.
>> There's less and less interesting stuff happening as time goes on,
>> and the audience is very small and strange.
>
>> We're even smaller than the "other group" I also posted this.  The
>> conversations here are much more interesting, and I'm interested in
>> continuing.  Suggestions?
> I use Thunderbird with Giganews. I find it adequate.

E-S is free.

aioe used to work but it tended to be used by GG.
It may no longer work anymore.

I am not sure what other free ones there are.
'Free trial' does not seem free to me.

I get the idea that I will not miss those posters
that think that usenet is a part of GG.