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Re:Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-rel... by speeder on Friday June 17, 2016 @11:46PM (#11926991)
When I tried to poke around, what I found is lots of expensive clients and no obvious gratuitous alternative, except for some time, Google groups
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Re:Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-rel... by mirimir on Friday June 17, 2016 @11:58PM (#11927033)
I believe that just about all newsgroups, except the binary ones, are available via Google Groups. Many years ago, Google bought archives going back to more or less the beginning.

Thunderbird is an OK news client.

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Re:Is there a good place to casually discuss programming-rel... by DanBC on Saturday June 18, 2016 @01:10PM (#11929484)
tin, slrn, or pan are good free clients.

http://tin.org/

http://www.slrn.org/

http://pan.rebelbase.com/

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