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From: rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid>
Newsgroups: news.admin.peering
Subject: Re: Which Newsgroups Should a Sysop Subscribe?
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2024 16:17:35 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Hispagatos
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On 2024-04-11, Adding Salt To The Wound <Hello.Welcome@example.net> wrote:
> On 11/04/2024 03:46, SugarBug wrote:
>> I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid information overload.
>>
> None. You don't need to use Newsgroups to stay current unless you want 
> to be current with nonsense going on in these newsgroups. The best way 
> is to use common sense and and Google is the best way to keep up-to-date 
> with new things happening in the IT world. Newsgroups are for trolling 
> and scoring points against each other and people with any sound brain 
> should stay away from them.
>
> There are no developments in "Usenet and NNTP". Nobody is working on 
> anything new. It is dull and outdated.
>
This is not true, and very vage old way of seen things,
at least there has been 4 new nodes in the last 12 months that carry 
only text, I am working on a usenet rust client and I know someone else
estarted to add nntp/usenet capability to their new email client.
In our particular node we are getting around 10-20 new users every
month, true  they usually just post on our hispagatos.* root but 
also contribute to some alt.* etc.
There has been new groups added and some old removed.

we FINALLY have google leave us alone, usenet now is better than 
in the last 10 years.
choose a node that has only plain text groups and are active 
with spam and bs.

I take usenet anytime over any centralized, and data mining corporate
social networks on the http protocol, only  the fediverse has my 
claps, specially mastodon.

Happy Hacking
ReK2 

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