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From: Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers,news.groups
Subject: Re: Replacement for Google Groups?
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 02:27:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:03:00 GMT, Colin Macleod wrote :


> I operate a web interface to Usenet at https://newsgrouper.org/ (text only).

Sweet!

I think it's great to have a web interface to Usenet as it serves multiple
purposes, particularly for those who don't know anything about Usenet:
1. Anyone can click on a link to any article or thread (even your mom)
2. The retention usually is excellent for web-based archives
3. The web-based archives generally have a decent search engine

I know about <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.free.newsservers> which
stopped adding articles just about a year ago (Feb 22nd, 2024).

At that time, RetroGuy added his news service at my request (and others).
 <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/search.php?group=alt.free.newsservers>

Looking at yours... I get the dark blue page... then I "click as guest"...
so I get the limegreen page... and then I click "Continue"...
which takes me to the light-blue page... where I search for this ng.

Searching for "alt.free.newsservers" gets me the logical URI which is a
sign that the admin designed the page with the human reader in mind.
 <https://newsgrouper.org/alt.free.newsservers>

I notice that the "source" button allows the full header, which is nice as
the main things you need are the message id & email which Google used to
provide but then stopped providing it.

What's MOST important (other than the search engine which I didn't test),
is the ability to provide your mom (or whomever) with a clickable link.

I tested a clickable link for a random article and that worked nicely.
There's no button there called "Search" but there is a button which does
that search; it's called "Find Articles" (which is fine).

For the most part, that's what matters to me.
I'll put it in the Usenet tutorials so that others can benefit, which is
what I do every day, all day - so that others benefit from the efforts.