Ask HN: What are your favorite newsgroups on Usenet?

Posted by iio7 on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @06:33PM
from the ask-hn dept.

For those using Usenet what are some of your favorite newsgroups?

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite newsgroups on Usenet? by thatoldfool on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:06AM (#29807976)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite newsgroups on Usenet? by gkbrk on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @07:43PM (#29803265)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite newsgroups on Usenet? by mattl on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @08:12PM (#29803552)

What clients are people using for Usenet these days?

I think Thunderbird is the only cross platform GUI app

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite newsgroups on Usenet? by iio7 on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @01:54AM (#29805995)

Claws-mail is great.

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