• Usenet feeds?

    From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to All on Sunday, September 16, 2018 07:55:04
    I havent been having any luck with this, so if someone knows of someone who provides a usenet feed I would appreciate if they could contact me. Will need 20 or so groups, none binary, and would be willing to make a donation to repay for the service...

    Marisa
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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to Marisag on Sunday, September 16, 2018 20:26:35
    On 09/16/18, Marisag pondered and said...

    I havent been having any luck with this, so if someone knows of someone who provides a usenet feed I would appreciate if they could contact me. Will need 20 or so groups, none binary, and would be willing to make a donation to repay for the service...

    Marisa

    Contact me - avon@bbs.nz and I'll see if I can help :)

    Best, Paul

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  • From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to Paul Hayton on Sunday, September 16, 2018 09:49:21
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Paul Hayton to Marisag on Sun Sep 16 2018 20:26:35

    Contact me - avon@bbs.nz and I'll see if I can help :)

    Best, Paul

    Thanks! Will-do!

    Marisa
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Marisag on Sunday, September 16, 2018 16:37:13
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Marisag to All on Sun Sep 16 2018 07:55 am

    I havent been having any luck with this, so if someone knows of someone who provides a usenet feed I would appreciate if they could contact me. Will need 20 or so groups, none binary, and would be willing to make a donation to repay for the service...



    why dont you use a usenet provider?
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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to Marisag on Monday, September 17, 2018 20:06:45
    On 09/16/18, Marisag pondered and said...

    Thanks! Will-do!

    Have sent you some further details via email. Hopefully it will do the trick. Best, Paul

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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to MRO on Monday, September 17, 2018 20:07:04
    On 09/16/18, MRO pondered and said...

    why dont you use a usenet provider?

    You mean like news.bbs.nz?

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Paul Hayton on Monday, September 17, 2018 21:35:54
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Paul Hayton to MRO on Mon Sep 17 2018 08:07 pm

    On 09/16/18, MRO pondered and said...

    why dont you use a usenet provider?

    You mean like news.bbs.nz?


    no, a non shitty one like easynews, giganews, or astraweb.

    you can buy a block with astraweb and use it for non binaries for YEARS.
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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to MRO on Tuesday, September 18, 2018 19:44:37
    On 09/17/18, MRO pondered and said...

    You mean like news.bbs.nz?
    no, a non shitty one like easynews, giganews, or astraweb.

    Ouch, news.bbs.nz is not shitty.

    you can buy a block with astraweb and use it for non binaries for YEARS.

    ..and it does not cost either... oh well, each to their own.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Paul Hayton on Tuesday, September 18, 2018 21:35:24
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Paul Hayton to MRO on Tue Sep 18 2018 07:44 pm

    You mean like news.bbs.nz?
    no, a non shitty one like easynews, giganews, or astraweb.

    Ouch, news.bbs.nz is not shitty.

    you can buy a block with astraweb and use it for non binaries for YEARS.

    ..and it does not cost either... oh well, each to their own.


    i'm pretty sure you arent a major NSP and you shouldn't be sharing your usenet access.
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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to MRO on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 21:50:10
    On 09/18/18, MRO pondered and said...

    i'm pretty sure you arent a major NSP and you shouldn't be sharing your usenet access.

    Please feel free to show me where you got the information that sharing the Usenet access I am offering to the original poster of this thread is not allowed.

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  • From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 09:43:51
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Marisag on Sun Sep 16 2018 16:37:13

    why dont you use a usenet provider?

    Tried that, synchronet diddn't like it. I have someone helping me with it now :)

    Marisa
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  • From Al DeRosa@VERT to Marisag on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 08:44:11
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Marisag to MRO on Wed Sep 19 2018 09:43 am

    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Marisag on Sun Sep 16 2018 16:37:13

    why dont you use a usenet provider?

    Tried that, synchronet diddn't like it. I have someone helping me with it now :)

    Marisa

    Let us know how you make out Marissa, I have a Giganews account and I am considering adding Usenet to my Synchro board and then passing them through to my 2 other boards...
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Marisag on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 11:52:32
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Marisag to MRO on Wed Sep 19 2018 09:43 am

    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Marisag on Sun Sep 16 2018 16:37:13

    why dont you use a usenet provider?

    Tried that, synchronet diddn't like it.

    Please provide details (error messages, etc).

    digital man

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Paul Hayton on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 15:55:09
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Paul Hayton to MRO on Wed Sep 19 2018 09:50 pm

    On 09/18/18, MRO pondered and said...

    i'm pretty sure you arent a major NSP and you shouldn't be sharing your usenet access.

    Please feel free to show me where you got the information that sharing the Usenet access I am offering to the original poster of this thread is not allowed.

    i dont really care about your situation, but i'm probably right.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Marisag on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 15:55:34
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Marisag to MRO on Wed Sep 19 2018 09:43 am

    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Marisag on Sun Sep 16 2018 16:37:13

    why dont you use a usenet provider?

    Tried that, synchronet diddn't like it. I have someone helping me with it now :)


    it should work fine. what error msgs were you getting?
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Al DeRosa on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 15:56:54
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Al DeRosa to Marisag on Wed Sep 19 2018 08:44 am

    Let us know how you make out Marissa, I have a Giganews account and I am considering adding Usenet to my Synchro board and then passing them through to my 2 other boards...


    the only thing i think synch wouldnt like is ssl connections. i'm not sure if they have ssl and regular for newsgroups. it's been like a year and a half since i was fetching newsgroups. it wasnt worth it for the msgs and the binaries i get from torrents.
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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to MRO on Thursday, September 20, 2018 10:00:38
    On 09/19/18, MRO pondered and said...

    i'm pretty sure you arent a major NSP and you shouldn't be sharin your usenet access.

    Please feel free to show me where you got the information that sharing Usenet access I am offering to the original poster of this thread is no allowed.

    i dont really care about your situation, but i'm probably right.

    Sounds more like you're happy to make unsubstantiated claims then fail to
    back them up. So lets get some actual info on the table instead of hunches
    and falsehoods.

    For the information of those following this thread news.bbs.nz is a NNTP server I set up and have been running successfully for a number of years. It's a text only server (no binaries) that is fully peered with sixteen other news providers of assorted commercial and non-profit sizes around the globe.

    While I don't run my NNTP server as a commercial service like some other
    Usenet service providers. I do offer a gated FTN<>Usenet service to all
    BBS nodes via a gateway I run in fsxNet (Zone 21) and also have a limited number of users that I have granted read/write access to post to the server
    via the standard NNTP ports (119/563).

    The server sends it's logs to a global Top 1000 list of NNTP active services and regularly features in the top 250-350 of that list.

    From what I have read in a subsequent post you have made here you last used Usenet for it's ability to aquire/share binaries content. That's not content
    I am interested in and filter out deliberately. I'll be setting up the OP tonight so they can pull down the BBS related alt.* and comp.* groups they
    were after.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Paul Hayton on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 19:38:47
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Paul Hayton to MRO on Thu Sep 20 2018 10:00 am

    i dont really care about your situation, but i'm probably right.

    Sounds more like you're happy to make unsubstantiated claims then fail to back them up. So lets get some actual info on the table instead of hunches and falsehoods.

    i was just saying this person should use a real newsgroup provider, not one who sublets their newsgroup account with a big provider.

    i dont know if saying 'probably' is an unsubstantiated claim.

    For the information of those following this thread news.bbs.nz is a NNTP server I set up and have been running successfully for a number of years. It's a text only server (no binaries) that is fully peered with sixteen

    post this in the ads section please.

    From what I have read in a subsequent post you have made here you last used Usenet for it's ability to aquire/share binaries content. That's not content

    i have used usenet for everything it offers.
    you probably dont carry binaries because of bandwidth caps with your isp.
    oops there i go again!
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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to MRO on Thursday, September 20, 2018 14:10:25
    On 09/19/18, MRO pondered and said...

    i was just saying this person should use a real newsgroup provider, not one who sublets their newsgroup account with a big provider.

    You clearly don't understand Usenet etiquette I'm not subletting anything,
    the server is peered with other providers and part of a global ecosystem.

    post this in the ads section please.

    Because who wants to read information that adds to a discussion when ignoring it could be so much easier huh?

    i have used usenet for everything it offers.
    you probably dont carry binaries because of bandwidth caps with your isp. oops there i go again!

    You mean assuming you know more about my ISP plan than I do, yep you're quite right :)

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Paul Hayton on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 21:22:28
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Paul Hayton to MRO on Thu Sep 20 2018 02:10 pm

    i was just saying this person should use a real newsgroup provider, not one who sublets their newsgroup account with a big provider.

    You clearly don't understand Usenet etiquette I'm not subletting anything, the server is peered with other providers and part of a global ecosystem.

    dont really care, dude

    post this in the ads section please.

    Because who wants to read information that adds to a discussion when ignoring it could be so much easier huh?

    we have an ads section. you are trying to push your services a bit too much.

    i have used usenet for everything it offers.
    you probably dont carry binaries because of bandwidth caps with your isp. oops there i go again!

    You mean assuming you know more about my ISP plan than I do, yep you're quite right :)


    i'm probably right, though.
    anyways, good for you. post in the ads section plese.
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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to MRO on Thursday, September 20, 2018 14:56:14
    On 09/19/18, MRO pondered and said...

    dont really care, dude

    Sure, that explains why your just keeping the thread going right?

    we have an ads section. you are trying to push your services a bit too much.

    I've posted info in this thread, that's all. If you have a problem with that and consider it too much, well that's your problem. Others can form their own views.

    i'm probably right, though.
    anyways, good for you. post in the ads section plese.

    There seems little point in trying to have a discussion with someone who
    adopts a point of view that they are probably right and opt to antagonize people who try to engage in discussion them. I'll drop the discussion with
    you now as it serves no productive use and is a waste of my time.

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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Paul Hayton on Thursday, September 20, 2018 14:03:00
    On 09-20-18 10:00, Paul Hayton wrote to MRO <=-

    While I don't run my NNTP server as a commercial service like some
    other Usenet service providers. I do offer a gated FTN<>Usenet service
    to all BBS nodes via a gateway I run in fsxNet (Zone 21) and also have
    a limited number of users that I have granted read/write access to post
    to the server via the standard NNTP ports (119/563).

    One day, I might look into taking a NNTP feed off you, but it's not a high priority. I know I could use your gateway too, but I may want to do NNTP directly (as much a technical exercise as anything). And text is what I'd want. I'm not really interested in binaries either.


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  • From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Thursday, September 20, 2018 20:00:09
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Marisag on Wed Sep 19 2018 15:55:34

    Didnt get any real errors, just couldnt get it to work with them the way I was doing with my previous server...

    Marisa
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Paul Hayton on Thursday, September 20, 2018 20:18:16
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Paul Hayton to MRO on Thu Sep 20 2018 02:56 pm

    There seems little point in trying to have a discussion with someone who adopts a point of view that they are probably right and opt to antagonize people who try to engage in discussion them. I'll drop the discussion with


    i'm not trying to antagonize you, i was just saying this person should use a major newsgroup provider. you are the guy who got your panties in a bunch.
    you kept popping it advertising your service.

    btw, i hope you are using business class because i talked to your isp last night and they said you cant run servers unless you have business class.

    i just say i'm probably right because i usually am right.
    it's experience.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Tony Langdon on Thursday, September 20, 2018 20:19:12
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Tony Langdon to Paul Hayton on Thu Sep 20 2018 02:03 pm


    One day, I might look into taking a NNTP feed off you, but it's not a high priority. I know I could use your gateway too, but I may want to do NNTP directly (as much a technical exercise as anything). And text is what I'd want. I'm not really interested in binaries either.


    take a good look before doing anything. binaries is pretty much what newsgroups are for. otherwise it's spam and very little chatter.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Marisag on Thursday, September 20, 2018 20:20:15
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Marisag to MRO on Thu Sep 20 2018 08:00 pm

    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Marisag on Wed Sep 19 2018 15:55:34

    Didnt get any real errors, just couldnt get it to work with them the way I was doing with my previous server...



    well being a technical person you can understand how you are being extremely fucking vague. :D

    i used major providers with synchronet [i even used synchronet to dump the binaries] and they all worked.
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  • From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Friday, September 21, 2018 05:04:39
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Tony Langdon on Thu Sep 20 2018 20:19:12

    take a good look before doing anything. binaries is pretty much what newsgroups are for. otherwise it's spam and very little chatter.

    Are you serious? I was using usenet back in the early 90's and we almost never posted large files... Didn't care for when that type of user started blaring out large files with multiple parts...

    Marisa
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  • From Marisag@VERT/AMIGAC to MRO on Friday, September 21, 2018 05:05:45
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Marisag on Thu Sep 20 2018 20:20:15

    well being a technical person you can understand how you are being extremely fucking vague. :D

    Lol, that was intentional, I was just looking for a quick suspect to check. I think I found out the cause as I seem to be getting news messages now...

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  • From Paul Hayton@VERT to Marisag on Friday, September 21, 2018 20:11:41
    On 09/21/18, Marisag pondered and said...

    check. I think I found out the cause as I seem to be getting news
    messages now...

    Should be sorted now. Enjoy.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Marisag on Friday, September 21, 2018 10:08:32
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Marisag to MRO on Fri Sep 21 2018 05:04 am

    take a good look before doing anything. binaries is pretty much what
    newsgroups are for. otherwise it's spam and very little chatter.

    Are you serious? I was using usenet back in the early 90's and we almost never posted large files... Didn't care for when that type of user started blaring out large files with multiple parts...

    That may have been true back then, but usenet may very well be little used anymore. I myself haven't used usenet much in a long time.

    Nightfox

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Marisag on Friday, September 21, 2018 15:58:16
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Marisag to MRO on Fri Sep 21 2018 05:04 am

    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Tony Langdon on Thu Sep 20 2018 20:19:12

    take a good look before doing anything. binaries is pretty much what newsgroups are for. otherwise it's spam and very little chatter.

    Are you serious? I was using usenet back in the early 90's and we almost never posted large files... Didn't care for when that type of user started blaring out large files with multiple parts...


    i wasnt talking about the fucking early 90s.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Nightfox on Friday, September 21, 2018 15:59:29
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Nightfox to Marisag on Fri Sep 21 2018 10:08 am

    By: Marisag to MRO on Fri Sep 21 2018 05:04 am

    take a good look before doing anything. binaries is pretty much what
    newsgroups are for. otherwise it's spam and very little chatter.

    Are you serious? I was using usenet back in the early 90's and we almost never posted large files... Didn't care for when that type of user started blaring out large files with multiple parts...

    That may have been true back then, but usenet may very well be little used anymore. I myself haven't used usenet much in a long time.



    i just checked a few days ago because i see i need to recharge my gigs at astraweb and usenet is in a pretty sad state communication wise.
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  • From Hawkeye@VERT/MASHBBS to Nightfox on Saturday, September 22, 2018 15:45:38
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Nightfox to Marisag on Fri Sep 21 2018 10:08:32

    That may have been true back then, but usenet may very well be little used anymore. I myself haven't used usenet much in a long time.

    I use it for binaries all the time (sickrage, sabnzbd, couchpotato, etc...) as its legal to use here.

    I would like to set Synchronet BBS to use the text only usenet one day. I used it a long time ago. Would like to integrate it again. I remember reading questions and answers being engaged with more respect and competent people while forums now a lot of nitwits are flooding it with stupid comments.

    HAWKEYE

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Hawkeye on Saturday, September 22, 2018 11:00:47
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Hawkeye to Nightfox on Sat Sep 22 2018 03:45 pm

    I would like to set Synchronet BBS to use the text only usenet one day. I used it a long time ago. Would like to integrate it again. I remember

    I had some newsgroups set up on my BBS in the past, but I think the news server I was using went away. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to read and post on newsgroups from a BBS, but these days, I wondered about the usefullness of that, since people could access a news server directly. It would have been more useful back in the early-mid 90s when the internet was just starting to get popular but when many people still didn't have internet access at home yet.

    Nightfox

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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Nightfox on Sunday, September 23, 2018 08:15:00
    On 09-22-18 11:00, Nightfox wrote to Hawkeye <=-

    I had some newsgroups set up on my BBS in the past, but I think the
    news server I was using went away. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to read and post on newsgroups from a BBS, but these days, I
    wondered about the usefullness of that, since people could access a
    news server directly. It would have been more useful back in the early-mid 90s when the internet was just starting to get popular but
    when many people still didn't have internet access at home yet.

    I used to read Usenet via BBSs when I had my gateway. Initially, there were some issues with threading, but GIGO had this really cool feature that encoded threading information into special kludge lines in the Fido messages. This worked really well and kept the Usenet people happy. :)

    For me, the BBS is still a nicer platform than newsreaders, though offline newsreading is quite nice, and the best choice for mobile use. And if all you ever use for your BBS is your phone or tablet, an offline newsreader is quite nice for echomail. It's just a pain to work that in with other technologies, because all of the state infoirmation is kept on the client side with NNTP, making it impossible to keep in sync with the BBS and one's other methods of access.


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  • From Mark Lewis@VERT to MRO on Sunday, September 23, 2018 18:06:19
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Paul Hayton on Wed Sep 19 2018 15:55:09

    i dont really care about your situation, but i'm probably right.

    and you are (more likely) wrong... once again, dude, don't be a dick... furrfu...

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  • From Mark Lewis@VERT to Paul Hayton on Sunday, September 23, 2018 18:11:36
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Paul Hayton to MRO on Thu Sep 20 2018 14:56:14

    There seems little point in trying to have a discussion with someone who adopts a point of view that they are probably right and opt to antagonize people who try to engage in discussion them. I'll drop the discussion with you now as it serves no productive use and is a waste of my time.

    now you know why so many have him twitted out... he is good at what he does and he does provide some decent services that many have enjoyed but his personal interaction with others leaves a lot to be desired... yeah, i know he is reading this :shrug:

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  • From Al DeRosa@VERT to Mark Lewis on Sunday, September 23, 2018 14:43:56
    Welcome back Mark, you don't know me, but a lot of us have been thinking
    about you during this storm. Hope all starts to get back to normal soon...

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  • From Mark Lewis@VERT to Al DeRosa on Sunday, September 23, 2018 19:01:38
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Al DeRosa to Mark Lewis on Sun Sep 23 2018 14:43:56

    Welcome back Mark, you don't know me, but a lot of us have been thinking about you during this storm. Hope all starts to get back to normal soon...

    thanks, al... it will take some time but yes, it is good to still be here...

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mark Lewis on Sunday, September 23, 2018 16:49:22
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Mark Lewis to MRO on Sun Sep 23 2018 06:06 pm

    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: MRO to Paul Hayton on Wed Sep 19 2018 15:55:09

    i dont really care about your situation, but i'm probably right.

    and you are (more likely) wrong... once again, dude, don't be a dick...

    why am i more than likely wrong? i'm not being a dick. i dont care about the guy's newsgroup server. i dont give one shit. i'm sick of hearing about it.

    he's the one that was pushing his shit home based server in my reply where i recommended a larger newsgroup server.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Mark Lewis on Sunday, September 23, 2018 16:52:49
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Mark Lewis to Paul Hayton on Sun Sep 23 2018 06:11 pm

    now you know why so many have him twitted out... he is good at what he does

    that's actually a myth. there arent many that have twit filtered me.
    that's something that a few butthurt guys made up.

    the other myth is that i caused many people to quit bbsing. that one makes
    me laugh the most.

    and he does provide some decent services that

    GEE thanks

    many have enjoyed but his
    personal interaction with others leaves a lot to be desired

    you wouldnt know because you havent personally interacted with me.
    this guy running the newsgroup server was putting a lot of work into pushing his service when i was recommending a newsgroup provider.
    that's just tacky. there's an ad section for that.

    i dont suffer fools.

    ... yeah, i know
    he is reading this :shrug:

    well you dont know shit, and please add me to YOUR twitfilter.

    you dont provide anything of substance other than constant questions and a superior attitude that you have yet to back up.
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  • From spacesst@VERT/SPACESST to Marisag on Sunday, September 23, 2018 23:43:21
    Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Marisag to All on Sun Sep 16 2018 07:55:04

    I havent been having any luck with this, so if someone knows of someone who provides a usenet feed I would appreciate if they could contact me. Will need 20 or so groups, none binary, and would be willing to make a donation to repay for the service...

    it's free usenet news.mccarragher.org
    Support bbs

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  • From Plt@VERT/MB to Tony Langdon on Saturday, November 10, 2018 23:45:43
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Tony Langdon to Nightfox on Sun Sep 23 2018 08:15:00

    I had some newsgroups set up on my BBS in the past, but I think the news server I was using went away. I thought it was pretty cool to be

    Just to let everyone know that I will be offering the internet newsgroups in Fidonet packets soon.

    Phi

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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to Plt on Sunday, November 11, 2018 18:52:00
    On 11-10-18 23:45, Plt wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    @TZ: 412c
    Re: Re: Usenet feeds?
    By: Tony Langdon to Nightfox on Sun Sep 23 2018 08:15:00

    I had some newsgroups set up on my BBS in the past, but I think the news server I was using went away. I thought it was pretty cool to be

    Just to let everyone know that I will be offering the internet
    newsgroups in Fidonet packets soon.

    Dunno how you managed to reply to my message. :D

    I'm not sure what is still around on Usenet, should take a look one day.


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