[aklug] Re: Regarding Usenet

There are still a lot of groups that are active. People post MP3s, movies, books. One of my favorite groups is alt.binaries.e-book.technical.

I use PAN for my news reader. PAN is easy to setup and use. Basically you configure the server settings. Download the groups list. Subscribe to whatever groups you want in the groups list. Then retrieve the headers for the subscribed groups. Next you download the attachments from the headers you want.

There are also web sites that offer a search for binaries uploaded to Usenet.
http://www.binsearch.info/

----- Original Message ----
From: James Zuelow <James_Zuelow@ci.juneau.ak.us>
To: Alaska Linux Users Group <aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:55:58 AM
Subject: [aklug] Re: Regarding Usenet

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]=20
> On Behalf Of Christopher Howard
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 December, 2008 10:48
> To: Alaska Linux Users Group
> Subject: [aklug] Regarding Usenet
>=20
> I've never given Usenet a try. I've heard some older guys=20
> around my work=20
> say they used to post to Usenet all the time, but I've never=20
> heard any say=20
> they use it now.
>=20
> I was wondering if it would be worth my time learning how to Usenet.

Back in the mid 80's usenet WAS the internet. Usenet, Empire and
Galtrader took up all of my VAX time at UAF.

Nowadays it isn't very relevant anymore.

Most useful usenet groups are just echoes of mailing lists or web
forums. Many of the usenet only groups are simply pr0n binary groups.
As a result some ISPs (ACS for example) no longer provide usenet feeds
to their customers.

I would not put too much of an effort into it unless you have a resource
on usenet that you need and can't find anywhere else --
alt.startrek.weslie.crusher.die.die.die comes to mind.
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Received on Tue Dec 30 12:44:24 2008