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Hello #hackers #tinkerers #explorers #minimalist #oldschoolers etc there are now #usenet talks about a new newsgroup for the #rust #rustlang programming language, you can participate in the #big-8 #big8 decision making in the #newsgroup news.groups.proposals the thread is under comp.lang.rust the big-8 approved an official #go lang newsgroup last year or so, among all the old newsgroups cleaning and spam blocking this is another sympton of the revamping of usenet 2.0 news.novabbs.org/usenet/articl

Thunderbird is a free open source communications suite (supports email, RSS, XMPP, IRC, Matrix, Usenet). They have an official video account at:

➡️ @thunderbird@tilvids.com

They've already posted 29 videos, if these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at tilvids.com/a/thunderbird/vide

They also have a general social media account at @thunderbird@mastodon.online

TILvidsThunderbirdThe Thunderbird Project is a family of free & open-source email software and productivity solutions for managing your personal and professional communications. Available on Linux, macOS and Win...

Sad news of Mozilla. It's time, finally, to delete Firefox.
Now I want to replace Thunderbird. It's been a battle recently, slow or freezing, unable to connect to the usenet server.

Yes, I still use Usenet. Not for binaries, but for the discussion groups. They are somewhat deserted now, but perhaps some of those who followed the lures of money-making platforms will return.
#Recommendations, please, for access to #Usenet?

File 770: Obituary for Mark R. Leeper, written by his wife Evelyn C. Leeper.

Usenetters who read rec.arts.sf.* will remember the Leepers; I certainly do!

"He was employed at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel and surrounding locations for 23 years until his retirement in 2001. ... For many years, Mark had been the longest-running film reviewer on the Internet, regularly publishing reviews since 1984, and being a member of the Online Film Critics Society since 2014. His first science fiction convention was Boskone VI (1969) and he attended dozens of conventions, serving on panels about film, and also leading origami workshops at many of them."

file770.com/mark-r-leeper-1950

File 770 · Mark R. Leeper (1950-2025)Mark R. Leeper By Evelyn C. Leeper: Mark R. Leeper passed away on February 22, 2025.  His end was very peaceful; one moment there was a breath, and the next there wasn’t. Mark was born i…
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I'm curious, and also trying to understand if it was hallucination, but any elder #astrodon folks remember 'Nancy' from #Usenet sci.astro days?

Gawd, I miss Nancy. Not for the totally absurd claims about #PlanetX, but more for the way otherwise sane astronomers were baited into debate. It was true theatre. Personally, I thought they were some punk performance artists who had planned some art event on the day of Nbiru's 'impact' and what better PR than actual astronomer quotes!

24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #webhistory #usenet dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-goo

The Silicon Underground · Deja News: Google's first acquisitionBefore Reddit, before Stack Overflow, there were Usenet Newsgroups.
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1/ Just because, here's my LSI-11 desktop - It works, they used much better capacitors in those days.

Way back when, the LSI-11 was often used to teach people Operating Systems and Compiler Design, and in my CS degree in 1986 we'd fiddle with MINIX on these things, and deal with re-writing different low-level UNIX things. Life was much easier with only 50 instructions to work with.

#DEC#Digital#PDP11
USENET IS NOT DEAD !!!!! USENET IS STILL FREE FREE FREE!

Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.

Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.

Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.

Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.

Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.

Usenet is the original free speech network.

Usenet is the original 'social network'.

NovaBBS
https://novabbs.org

Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://www.i2pn2.org/

#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember

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