top | item 29802551 Ask HN: What are your favorite newsgroups on Usenet? 21 points| iio7 | 4 years ago For those using Usenet what are some of your favorite newsgroups? 4 comments order hn newest [+] [-] thatoldfool|4 years ago|reply I just bought usenapp (https://www.usenapp.com/) after using Unison for ages on mac. This is a useful backbone map of the usenet networks: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Usenet_P...I have a hefty block account that's my primary server, and then a TB of block data from other backbones set to be only used when my primary server is missing data. [+] [-] gkbrk|4 years ago|reply sci.crypt has fun stuff from time to time, if you like cryptography topics. comp.lang.c is also nice, if you filter off-topic posters.They also recently started a usenet newsgroup for the Gemini protocol, but it's not widely known yet. [+] [-] mattl|4 years ago|reply What clients are people using for Usenet these days?I think Thunderbird is the only cross platform GUI app [+] [-] iio7|4 years ago|reply Claws-mail is great.
[+] [-] thatoldfool|4 years ago|reply I just bought usenapp (https://www.usenapp.com/) after using Unison for ages on mac. This is a useful backbone map of the usenet networks: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Usenet_P...I have a hefty block account that's my primary server, and then a TB of block data from other backbones set to be only used when my primary server is missing data.
[+] [-] gkbrk|4 years ago|reply sci.crypt has fun stuff from time to time, if you like cryptography topics. comp.lang.c is also nice, if you filter off-topic posters.They also recently started a usenet newsgroup for the Gemini protocol, but it's not widely known yet.
[+] [-] mattl|4 years ago|reply What clients are people using for Usenet these days?I think Thunderbird is the only cross platform GUI app [+] [-] iio7|4 years ago|reply Claws-mail is great.
[+] [-] thatoldfool|4 years ago|reply
I have a hefty block account that's my primary server, and then a TB of block data from other backbones set to be only used when my primary server is missing data.
[+] [-] gkbrk|4 years ago|reply
They also recently started a usenet newsgroup for the Gemini protocol, but it's not widely known yet.
[+] [-] mattl|4 years ago|reply
I think Thunderbird is the only cross platform GUI app
[+] [-] iio7|4 years ago|reply