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Dear NNTP users,
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:49:37 GMT
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For those of you using newsreaders, I have a few questions. I'm curious: what other sorts of stuff do you follow via newsreader? Anything cool? Are there many things you've been forced to switch to viewing other ways? How do you follow rss feeds? Is there any such thing as a good aggrigator? What's up with projects like nntp//rss? Like, how come it's dead in the water?
http://www.methodize.org/nntprss/
-Suz
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Message has 11 Replies:
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| (...) I've been following several dutch newsgroups, mostly Linux/hardware related for years. Used to subscribe to other groups too but those died out when webboards came or were ruined by one or two loudmouths. (...) I've been using KDE's akregator (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) usenet groups (among them rec.toys.lego :-) other, non-usenet servers, for example borland.public.delphi.* (...) Not switch. I do read a couple of web forums, but I really don't like the format (the content is my reason for reading). (...) (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| I only use NNTP for Lugnet. As other hobbies I have had have moved to BBs, I have trailed off of them. I *highly* prefer NNTP and email to anything else, as I can download when I want and read offline (not that I'm ever really offline). I just won't (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| (...) Um, well, since my newsreader is Pine, I suppose I could say that I follow all my e-mail through my newsreader. . .but I don't use NNTP for anything but LUGNET newsgroups (and never really read any non-LUGNET newsgroups but rtl and some (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| "Suz" <suz@baseplate.com> wrote in message news:IJw76p.246I@lugnet.com... (...) I subscribe to about 40 Lugnet groups on 3 different computers via NNTP. That's my idea of cool! ;) I've never figured out how to subscribe to rtl or I would (paid (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| (...) I played around with NNTP on LUGNET a year or so ago, got it working, almost never used it. It didn't fit into my own personal workflow. Going beyond the immediate questions you pose, it sounds like you're interested in determining the (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| (...) Thank you, thank you! I am so happy with the responses and discussion in this thread. It's great for me to hear all your views and to learn so much in a hurry. Some of it's over my head. ..I'll still need to read the posts carefully, and take (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| (...) I see there are lots of replies that I haven't read yet, but I'll just answer Suz's question directly for myself. I read a few standard newsgroups from my ISP's server via NNTP. E.g. comp.arch (computer architecture), rec.humour.funny, etc. I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| Suz, I use NNTP almost exclusively. As others have pointed out, the new web forums (such as that used on legofan.org) are somewhat spiffy, but I find them slow and cumbersome. With NNTP I can quickly scan what is new across a relatively flat list of (...) (19 years ago, 22-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| (...) I don't follow Lugnet through a newsreader (not since the port change). The combination of the annoying e-mail-based authentication, figuring out how to reconfigure my newsreader for the non-standard port, and my general annoyance with having (...) (19 years ago, 29-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: Dear NNTP users,
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| One thing I don't understand, having now used NNTP (and saved an offline cache of .trains 'just in case'!) is how you know about things in groups you don't subscribe to? One of the things I like doing is seeing what is going on in other groups every (...) (19 years ago, 31-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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