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     Re: Re: host/ip settings   
     By: fusion to Accession on Sun Apr 13 2025 09:31 am   
      
    > On 13 Apr 2025, Accession said the following...   
    >   
    >  Ac> Either way, I recently created an account on eternal-september.org   
    >   
    >  Ac> and   
    >  Ac> subscribed to a bunch of newsgroups (BBS related, 2600 related, Fido   
    >  Ac> (even Russian fido7 newsgroups) related) to see if there was any   
    >  Ac> activity there. Usenet as a whole seems fairly dead, unfortunately.   
    >   
    > yeah.. unfortunately you'd have to subscribe to *everything* for about a   
    > month to know where activity is. it'll be empty and then there will be 40   
    > people posting..   
    >   
    > the slackware one comes alive about every other week,   
    >   
    > alt.folklore.computers   
    > blows up randomly.. the C and C++ ones in a month or so have more message   
    > volume than all the bbs message nets combined for a year probably (you   
    > wouldn't know it's not 1993 in there) .. i don't think i'd want that high of   
    > volume going through a bbs though..   
    >   
    > so either not worth it, or not worth it because it'd be annoying to read   
    > through? *shrug*   
      
   there's better ones than eternal september. i don't know why people even use   
   it.  also newsgroups are mostly binaries now.   i stopped using them because   
   it was a pain to subscribe to an indexer site and then pay for a newsgroup   
   provider account.  i just use torrents.   
      
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