Subj : Anyone on Usenet
To   : Khronos
From : Vorlon
Date : Wed Jan 07 2026 10:22 am


Hello Khronos!

06 Jan 26 07:03, you wrote to all:

 Kh> Anyone also communicate on usenet?
 Kh> I have been recently also looking into this as a medium for
 Kh> communicating with others, but am not sure about the size of the user
 Kh> base. What are your thoughts?

If your very selective about the groups you want to read then it's just like any other message network.
Some groups have regular post's and others are dead. It all depends on what your looking for.

Now that google has de-linked google groups, the spam from that link is now zero.

It also depends on how you want to access a/the news server. Do you want a dedicated newsgroup software on your computer or
do you want the groups gated to a FTN.

There are a few of us that gate newsgroups into ftn networks, and *only* text based groups are gated.

Here's a sample of what my system is gating, and as you can see some haven't seen any posts (high number of 1), yet others
are higher up.


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# PyGate Areas Configuration
# Format: newsgroup_name: low_message-high_message
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Vorlon


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