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Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: Bimwad
Date: November 08, 2014 01:48AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: eustacetilley
Date: November 08, 2014 03:15AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: Stavs
Date: November 08, 2014 08:09AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: JoeH
Date: November 08, 2014 10:08AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: Chakravartin
Date: November 08, 2014 10:28AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: freeradical
Date: November 08, 2014 10:32AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: davemchine
Date: November 08, 2014 10:39AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: Speedy
Date: November 08, 2014 10:43AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: freeradical
Date: November 08, 2014 10:49AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: deckeda
Date: November 08, 2014 11:05AM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: Article Accelerator
Date: November 08, 2014 11:22AM
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eustacetilley
I wonder if any here made it all the way from comp.sys.mac, to dealmac, and then to MRF unscathed.
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Does anybody else here remember Chuq?
Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: TheCaber
Date: November 08, 2014 01:46PM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: IronMac
Date: November 08, 2014 02:17PM
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eustacetilley
" The market for a Usenet client in 2014 isn’t exactly huge."
Usenet was never supposed to be a commercial "market". Very much the opposite. There are still ways around these jerks.
Let's hear it for the "specialized toolz".
I wonder if any here made it all the way from comp.sys.mac, to dealmac, and then to MRF unscathed.
Does anybody else here remember Chuq?
¬Eustace
Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: Bimwad
Date: November 08, 2014 03:50PM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: eustacetilley
Date: November 08, 2014 04:50PM
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IronMac
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eustacetilley
" The market for a Usenet client in 2014 isn’t exactly huge."
Usenet was never supposed to be a commercial "market". Very much the opposite. There are still ways around these jerks.
Let's hear it for the "specialized toolz".
I wonder if any here made it all the way from comp.sys.mac, to dealmac, and then to MRF unscathed.
Does anybody else here remember Chuq?
¬Eustace
A. What specialized tools?
B. Wouldn't that reveal your age?
hahaha
Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: rz
Date: November 08, 2014 06:54PM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: fauch
Date: November 08, 2014 07:15PM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: Bimwad
Date: November 08, 2014 07:50PM
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rz
It's the only reason I bought Parallels... so I could run a VM of Snow Leopard so I can still run MT-Newswatcher. I really wish Simon Fraser wouldn't have abandoned it. The only problem I have with it is the ridiculous limit of 100,000 headers at a time. Some groups get over a million headers a day, and if you don't keep up with it, it can take hours just to go through the headers.
Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: rz
Date: November 09, 2014 10:46AM
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Bimwad
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rz
It's the only reason I bought Parallels... so I could run a VM of Snow Leopard so I can still run MT-Newswatcher. I really wish Simon Fraser wouldn't have abandoned it. The only problem I have with it is the ridiculous limit of 100,000 headers at a time. Some groups get over a million headers a day, and if you don't keep up with it, it can take hours just to go through the headers.
Thoth can handle hundreds of thousands of headers. It also springs from Norstad's Newswatcher tree, so the capability is there.
The only problem is that the developer can be described as, at best, eccentric, at worst, psychotic, often wavering between the two.
But it, too, has ceased development (at least for now), and there's no way to obtain new licenses.
Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: Bimwad
Date: November 09, 2014 12:48PM
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Re: Usenet users (I know you exist) - Unison EOL'ed and made free
Posted by: BobC
Date: November 13, 2014 09:32PM
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JoeH
Don't recall the name Chuq, but read and posted in the Usenet groups including the various Mac ones for years before finding the original dealmac site. Kept up with them until the usenet feed was shut off here at the university about 10 years ago. Tried keeping up with a few groups through google, but their interface was unwieldy and has not gotten any better in the years since.