thisusernameistaken, 11 months ago

Know someone to get on or know someone to talk back and forth with? I mean, you could use google groups interface which is awful but still sort of an on ramp to it (and free). Plenty of usenet services out there though. you could pay a buck or two to blocknews.net for a few gigs and now you have “premium” access. discussion groups will take a long time to eat up 5 gigs. the real problem is sorting through to find the active groups not to mention finding decent nntp newsreader software for your platform. actually someone just posted a few days back in alt.fan.usenet some decently active discussion groups. got to start somewhere i suppose.

<span style="color:#323232;">alt.culture.usenet:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alt.fan.usenet:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alt.obituaries:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alt.privacy:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">alt.tv.simpsons:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ba.broadcast:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.ai:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.arch:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.compilers:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.dcom.telecom:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.infosystems.gemini:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.infosystems.gopher:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.lang.c++:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.lang.c:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.lang.forth:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.lang.misc:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.lang.python.announce:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.lang.python:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.lang.raspberry-pi:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.lang.tcl:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.misc:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.mobile.android:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.mobile.misc:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.os.cpm:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.os.linux.announce:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.os.linux.misc:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.risks:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.sys.apple2:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.text.tex:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">comp.unix.shell:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">gnu.emacs.help:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">misc.legal.moderated:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">misc.taxes.moderated:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">news.admin.moderation:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">news.announce.important:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">news.announce.newgroups:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">news.groups.proposals:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">news.groups:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">news.software.readers:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.arts.drwho:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.arts.movies.current-films:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.arts.sf.tv:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.arts.sf.written:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.autos.sport.f1:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.aviation.soaring:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.bicycles.tech:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.food.cooking:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.games.backgammon:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.music.beatles:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.music.classical.recordings:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.amateur.antenna:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.amateur.equipment:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.amateur.misc:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.amateur.moderated:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.amateur.policy:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.amateur.space:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.info:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.radio.shortwave:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.sport.rowing:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">rec.woodworking:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sci.astro:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sci.electronics.design:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sci.electronics.repair:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sci.logic:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sci.physics.relativity:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sci.physics.research:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">talk.origins:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">uk.comp.sys.mac:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">uk.radio.amateur.moderated:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">uk.rec.sheds:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">uk.sci.weather:
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