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From: Alan Grunwald <nospam.nurdglaw@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: A few notes on porting Tcl/Tk 8.6 ? 9
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:30:51 +0100
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On 12/06/2025 08:06, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:29:25 +0200, Helmut Giese wrote:
> 
>> Rich <rich@example.invalid> schrieb:
>>
>>> Mark Summerfield <m.n.summerfield@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> PS My ISP has now stopped supporting newsgroup access.
>>>
>>> Then sign up for an Eternal September account:
>>> https://www.eternal-september.org/
>>>
>>>> And a few years ago Google stopped supporting them.
>>>
>>> That was actually a good thing, because 99.8% of the SPAM posts on
>>> Usenet were coming from Google.
>>
>> I can second this: For quite some years now I have an account with
>> eternal-september and in all this time there were at most a handful of
>> time-outs which usually were gone after a short while. And it is a
>> friendly service: you sign up and you never hear of them again. Helmut
> 
> I am now using eternal-september.
> 
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to update the page:
> https://www.tcl-lang.org/community/
> to drop the mentions of Google for the newsgroup and provide a link to
> eternal-september?
+1