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On 2025-02-04 19:40:23 +0000, Bud Frede said:

Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> writes:

On 25.01.25 02:58, Bud Frede wrote:

For newservers, eternal september is good and has been mentioned by
others already. Another good option is news.individual.net. It's not
free, but it's not very expensive, and it's quite reliable.

+1
I can also recommend Solani.org which is another free German server and
is as reliable as indvidual.net which I use for the German speaking groups. >>
https://solani.org

I used to use NIN back when it was something else (was it cis.dfn.de?)
When they re-organized and became NIN, I subscribed for a couple of
years and then my needs changed a bit. I like having long retention now
so I can explore old articles in a wide variety of newsgroups. It's
worth it (to me) to subscribe to one of the larger NSPs like supernews, giganews, or usenetserver.

If that changes, I'm sure I'll go back to news.individual.net again.

I don't like NIN myself, they seem too anal retentive about their
rules. I used them a couple of times in the past and got kicked off
both times, I don't even remember why now.

Solani is good though, just as long as you remember to log in at least
once a month or they'll suspend your account and you have to register
all over again.

Something strange about eternal-september though, on my older system I
use MT Newswatcher and when I launch it and then try to open a group
that has a large number of posts it takes forever for the posts to come
up. But when I switch servers to Solani, and then switch back to eternal-september the group with the large number of posts comes up
promptly. Maybe there's some rational explanation for this but I don't
know enough about Usenet servers to figure it out.

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In article <renekint-FC8895.19301224012025@news.eternal-september.org>,
Rene Kint <renekint@stnest.net> wrote:

I also use eternal-september, but with MT-Newswatcher as reader (om
MacOS 9.2, iMac G3)

Ditto for news.eternal-september.org. I use MT-Newswatcher 3.5.3b3 via
Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 via VMware Fusion 13.6.3 via Sequoia 15.5 on
Mac mini 2018 Intel. Or via Sequoia Terminal via tin.
--
Matti
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On 2025-06-27 09:28, Matti Haveri wrote:

In article <renekint-FC8895.19301224012025@news.eternal-september.org>,
Rene Kint <renekint@stnest.net> wrote:

I also use eternal-september, but with MT-Newswatcher as reader (om
MacOS 9.2, iMac G3)

Ditto for news.eternal-september.org. I use MT-Newswatcher 3.5.3b3 via
Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 via VMware Fusion 13.6.3 via Sequoia 15.5 on
Mac mini 2018 Intel. Or via Sequoia Terminal via tin.

That seems like an awful lot of hoops to jump through just for a
newsreader...
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In article <103mjod$852q$5@dont-email.me>, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
wrote:

That seems like an awful lot of hoops to jump through just for a newsreader...

nah, it takes just 20 seconds from Sequoia. About the same time with tin
once once I remember to start it with 'tin -rA'.
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Matti
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On 2025-06-27 10:54, Matti Haveri wrote:

In article <103mjod$852q$5@dont-email.me>, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
wrote:

That seems like an awful lot of hoops to jump through just for a
newsreader...

nah, it takes just 20 seconds from Sequoia. About the same time with tin
once once I remember to start it with 'tin -rA'.

OK, but...

...is Thunderbird really so terrible for you?

:-)
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