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Subject: Re: Which Newsgroups Should a Sysop Subscribe?
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:00:13 -0000 (UTC)
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Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote at 18:16 this Sunday (GMT):
> On 14.04.2024 um 16:17 Uhr rek2 hispagatos wrote:
>
>> 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 It is dull and outdated.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.
>
> Which nodes are you talking about?
>
>> 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.
>
> That sounds good.
>
>> 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.
>
> I've joined that too, but the amount of bullshit is incredible - almost
> the same as on Twitter.
> It also doesn't offer a good discussion platform because it doesn't
> have real threads.
>


Yeah, mastadon isn't great IMO.
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