[tigereyeTO]

Sounds like you’re misinformed.

Text-only newsgroup servers are free. You only need to use/pay for indexers if you’re scouring many groups for specific keywords.

If you’re subscribing to specific text groups you don’t need to search an index for the whole net. You can just scroll to the top and read what you missed since last session

The barrier of entry is learning how to use a piece of software like Thunderbird. It’s no larger than email. If you figured that one out, you can figure out newsgroups too.

I remember when everyone was deriding “the internet” and “email” as being too cumbersome for an “average person” to figure out, having too many “hoops” to jump through to use it.

Thanks for the nostalgia, wackget