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  • Re: newsreaders in 2025

    From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Captainj on Friday, May 02, 2025 08:34:00
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    Re: Re: newsreaders in 2025
    By: Dumas Walker to MORTAR on
    Wed Apr 30 2025 08:32:00

    IIRC, the alt groups were also a lot less likely to be moderated than, say, a comp group.

    The bbs scene these days is so much err . . . smaller.

    It was never too big though, was it? Each BBS was "local", so I would imagine you would get to know whos who on your local BBS's.



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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Boraxman on Friday, May 02, 2025 03:47:09
    Re: Re: newsreaders in 2025
    By: Boraxman to Captainj on Fri May 02 2025 08:34 am

    It was never too big though, was it? Each BBS was "local", so I would imagi you would get to know whos who on your local BBS's.

    It was pretty big here (Phoenix). There were a LOT of different BBSes, each with their own group of callers that were pretty different crowds. You still get that today if you hop around between different types of systems.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Boraxman on Friday, May 02, 2025 07:30:18
    Boraxman wrote to Captainj <=-

    It was never too big though, was it? Each BBS was "local", so I would imagine you would get to know whos who on your local BBS's.

    I was part of a local othernet back then, and we had boards that were
    laid out with the hub "in the middle", roughly. I could call the hub,
    the other sysop could call the hub and it was a free call. Calling from
    one BBS "area" to the other was a toll call - so we ended up with
    exclusive user groups.

    We had gettogethers a couple of times a year, it was nice to see
    have different user groups on the local boards, share with them on the networked boards and still be able to meet up.



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  • From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to PHIGAN on Friday, May 02, 2025 09:26:00
    It was pretty big here (Phoenix). There were a LOT of different BBSes, each with their own group of callers that were pretty different crowds. You still get that today if you hop around between different types of systems.

    In later years, the Programmer's Workshop West (home of the GT Power BBS software) was located in Phoenix. ;)


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  • From Matthew Munson@VERT/IUTOPIA to MORTAR on Wednesday, April 23, 2025 19:36:00
    I used Agent exclusively, from day one 'til newsgroups were no longer a thing. <sigh>...I miss the old Usenet.

    That was like 25-30 years ago, the prime of that.

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  • From Ragnarok@VERT/DOCKSUD to All on Saturday, May 10, 2025 15:35:50
    El 19/4/25 a las 23:03, MRO (VERT/BBSESINF) escribi¢:
    Re: newsreaders in 2025
    By: Internetking to All on Sat Apr 19 2025 05:50 pm

    > hi all.. what newsreader recomend use in 2025? that allow setup mulipile
    > news servers and read and posting?
    >
    > thank you all

    i have always used xnews.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ragnarok on Saturday, May 10, 2025 19:20:30
    Re: Re: newsreaders in 2025
    By: Ragnarok to All on Sat May 10 2025 03:35 pm

    i have always used xnews.
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    I use Thunderbird

    i also used that other one that someone else mentioned.
    I never liked thunderbird, even for an email client. it just seems to buggy to me and i don't like the interface. I have claws running just to keep all my email accts active.
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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Ragnarok on Sunday, May 11, 2025 02:03:23
    Re: Re: newsreaders in 2025
    By: Ragnarok to All on Sat May 10 2025 15:35:50

    I use Thunderbird

    Beats drinking it.

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  • From Cougar428@VERT/CJSPLACE to MORTAR on Sunday, May 11, 2025 21:35:56
    Quoting Mortar to Ragnarok <=-

    Re: Re: newsreaders in 2025
    By: Ragnarok to All on Sat May 10 2025 15:35:50

    I use Thunderbird

    Beats drinking it.

    Yeah, I like MD 20/20 better...

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  • From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to MRO on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 08:26:42
    Re: Re: newsreaders in 2025
    By: MRO to Ragnarok on Sat May 10 2025 07:20 pm

    i also used that other one that someone else mentioned.
    I never liked thunderbird, even for an email client. it just seems to buggy to me and i don't like the interface. I have claws running just to keep all my email accts active.

    I despise Thunderbird. I think it is too big for its own good. That said, if you want a solution in which you can integrate Carddav contacts and Caldav schedules at cheap/zero cost then you don't have many options.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 14:20:15
    Re: Re: newsreaders in 2025
    By: Arelor to MRO on Wed May 14 2025 08:26 am


    I despise Thunderbird. I think it is too big for its own good. That said, if you want a solution in which you can integrate Carddav contacts and Caldav schedules at cheap/zero cost then you don't have many options.


    i've been using that microsoft shit at work for years so i have no need.
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