[LINK] Who uses dedicated and individual software for web/rss/mail?
Peter Bowditch
peter at ratbags.com
Tue Feb 10 14:23:09 AEDT 2009
Rachel said:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>
> > Does anyone still subscribe to Newsgroups?
> >
> > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroup>
>
> I do but Pathetic Internet stopped doing news feeds and now I cannot
> find a decent free feed in Australia anywhere.
Try http://motzarella.org/ It's the one that's most recommended whenever
someone complains to a group that I inhabit about their ISP dropping
groups.
Or, if you are really desperate - http://groups.google.com
Ghastly, I know, but useful in an emergency.
>
> I run my own home news server, or I would, except it has no feed.
>
> I need a feed (news junky going through withdrawl here).
> I suppose I could tunnel through work, but they retired USENET there as
> well :/
>
> I much prefer newsfroups to web forums and the like. I even liked
> the asynchronous timing of it all. Gave me time to think and read,
> read and think.
>
> Web forums/blogs are too immediate and ultimately overwhelming.
>
> I left a couple of forums I was deep into
> because firstly I was getting depressed
> at the stupid kinds of monkey species on them and secondly
> it was same same same on every one of them eventually.
>
> With newsgroups, you could totally lurk, search, grep scan, archive and
> so on without having to interact or go to the other extreme
> and have a good old flame war. Web forums start out ok and then
> each thread becomes a either a boring introspective on non related
> nonsense or a childish abuse fest.
Every now and then someone suggests that a newsgroup should migrate over
to a web forum. Old-timers just say "Off you go, then" and keep firing up
Agent or Thunderbird to get the job done properly.
And, related to the subject line, I use Forte Agent for newsgroups. It has
an inbuilt email client with apparently excellent filtering rules. I use
Pegasus Mail for email (because it allows me to assign personas to
folders) and use my news program for news, which is what it was built for.
--
Peter Bowditch
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