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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

[+] 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.