Ask HN: Idea Sunday

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by qw on Sunday April 20, 2014 @04:41PM (#7618408)

In my opinion, discussions were handled better in the old Usenet days. How about running a private NNTP server and use one of the programs that forwards the mailing list to the NNTP server? There are still lots of good NNTP clients out there like XNews

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by sdesol on Sunday April 20, 2014 @05:48PM (#7618603)

I can't agree more and what I absolutely loved about Usenet discussions was, every reply contains a subject line. And it was expected etiquette to change your subject line if your reply deviates from the parent.

With usenet, I could easily tell what I haven't read and if a branch deviates from what I'm interested in discussing, I can just ignore that entire branch.

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Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday by DanBC on Sunday April 20, 2014 @05:53PM (#7618621)

I used and loved XNews, and Pan, and SLRN.

Setting up a private NNTP server and getting people to use a Usenet client is going to be a challenge. I haven't looked, but are there any mobile clients?

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