[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.


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Peter Bowditch
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