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From: rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Newsgrouper Update
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:17:19 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Hispagatos
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On 2025-02-20, Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:
> rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.meow.org.invalid> posted:
>
>> On 2025-02-14, s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:17:38 -0000 (UTC), rek2 hispagatos wrote:
>> >
>> >> Can't you host on a non 8 eyes country?  and have the few in the uk
>> >> using it use tor/vpn?  you could also give http access on tor/i2p
>> >> :shrugs: 
>> >
>> > It's Nine Eyes, isn't it?
>> >
>> Indeed seems like unfortunately the "eyes" keeps growing :) 
>
> The new UK law doesn't care where the service is hosted, only whether
> it's available to UK users.  Also users who are sophisticated enough
> to use tor or a vpn would most likely be using their own nntp client
> and so would not need my web interface at all.
>

Not really, I think your site is used mostly as an alternative for the
lack of Android open/libre apps, I know for a fact a lof of our users
use it when on the phone but at home or when they get their laptop out
on a coffee shop etc then they use slrn/thunderbird/tin etc... 
I personally use it to post to the fediverse some posts we do as
announcements about our mastodon instance been doing for maintenance or
2600 events etc. So for example I may post an event to
alt.2600,alt.2600.hackers,alt.2600.madrid and pic one of those on your
site and share the url on non-nntp/usenet forums like the fediverse to
reach out non-usenet users, and with this bring more people into using
usenet.(This has worked well for the last year or so)

BTW: that law is very weird, what about all the fediverse servers there
are thousands if not millions if we add the other non-mastodon
instances, I am sure most are used by UK people. Just thinking out loud 

Happy Hacking 
ReK2

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