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You'd think Usenet is just perfect for vintage Mac fans - it's low-tech and runs
fine on a Mac Plus. You can post right from the very machines you're talking about. If I check other vintage computers, their newsgroups appears to have at least some more traffic. So why isn't this place more lively?


On a sidenote: anyone on here via Terminal on a vintage Mac (e.g. ZTerm?) Does that even still work for accessing Usenet?
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In article <info-5263FF.15382419042024@news.individual.de>, Sebastian
P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:

You'd think Usenet is just perfect for vintage Mac fans - it's low-tech and runs
fine on a Mac Plus. You can post right from the very machines you're talking about. If I check other vintage computers, their newsgroups appears to have at
least some more traffic. So why isn't this place more lively?

Agreed. I actually, as we speak, have an article in draft for vintageapplemac.com where I'm encouraging Mac users to hit Usenet up,
now that "Eternal February" is with us post-Google, Usenet could be a
real boon for vintage computer users, almost our own enclave! I will be
posting it at the weekend, if I manage to entice a single vintage Mac
user to take a look here, that'd be a win.

On a sidenote: anyone on here via Terminal on a vintage Mac (e.g. ZTerm?) Does
that even still work for accessing Usenet?

No clue, sorry, I'm using YA-NewsWatcher.
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scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> writes:

In article <info-5263FF.15382419042024@news.individual.de>, Sebastian
P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:

You'd think Usenet is just perfect for vintage Mac fans - it's low-tech and >> runs
fine on a Mac Plus. You can post right from the very machines you're talking
about. If I check other vintage computers, their newsgroups appears to have >> at
least some more traffic. So why isn't this place more lively?

Agreed. I actually, as we speak, have an article in draft for vintageapplemac.com where I'm encouraging Mac users to hit Usenet up,
now that "Eternal February" is with us post-Google, Usenet could be a
real boon for vintage computer users, almost our own enclave! I will be posting it at the weekend, if I manage to entice a single vintage Mac
user to take a look here, that'd be a win.

Good luck!

On a sidenote: anyone on here via Terminal on a vintage Mac (e.g. ZTerm?)
Does
that even still work for accessing Usenet?

You could use ZTerm to connect to a Unix system via serial or modem,
then run a command-line newsreader. Not very Mac-ish, of course.

No clue, sorry, I'm using YA-NewsWatcher.

If you've got a minute, I'd be interested to hear a comparison between
the various versions of NewsWatcher, e.g. YA-, MT-, VA-



john
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In article <864jbp14pz.fsf@building-m.net>,
John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> wrote:

scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> writes:

In article <info-5263FF.15382419042024@news.individual.de>, Sebastian
P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:

You'd think Usenet is just perfect for vintage Mac fans - it's low-tech >> and
runs
fine on a Mac Plus. You can post right from the very machines you're
talking
about. If I check other vintage computers, their newsgroups appears to
have
at
least some more traffic. So why isn't this place more lively?

Agreed. I actually, as we speak, have an article in draft for vintageapplemac.com where I'm encouraging Mac users to hit Usenet up,
now that "Eternal February" is with us post-Google, Usenet could be a
real boon for vintage computer users, almost our own enclave! I will be posting it at the weekend, if I manage to entice a single vintage Mac
user to take a look here, that'd be a win.

Good luck!

On a sidenote: anyone on here via Terminal on a vintage Mac (e.g. ZTerm?) >> Does
that even still work for accessing Usenet?

You could use ZTerm to connect to a Unix system via serial or modem,
then run a command-line newsreader. Not very Mac-ish, of course.

No clue, sorry, I'm using YA-NewsWatcher.

If you've got a minute, I'd be interested to hear a comparison between
the various versions of NewsWatcher, e.g. YA-, MT-, VA-

john

Usenet is really vintage friendly, indeed. And there's plenty of
newsreaders around that work really well. I'm using MT-NewsWatcher to
write this on my PowerBook G4 Titanium.

Let's hope for a UseNet renaissance!
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Knezzen <contact@unixfiles.org> writes:

Usenet is really vintage friendly, indeed. And there's plenty of
newsreaders around that work really well. I'm using MT-NewsWatcher to
write this on my PowerBook G4 Titanium.

Let's hope for a UseNet renaissance!

I have no doubt Usenet will outlive the last set of non-broken TiBook
hinges.

One reason I don't use mine much anymore is the terrible groaning creak
it makes when I open the lid. I just dread that inevitable CRACK.

john
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Knezzen <contact@unixfiles.org> wrote:

[...]

Usenet is really vintage friendly, indeed. And there's plenty of
newsreaders around that work really well. I'm using MT-NewsWatcher to
write this on my PowerBook G4 Titanium.

I'm using MacSOUP 2.4.6 on a beige G3 running OS 8.6
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In article <864jbp14pz.fsf@building-m.net>, John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> wrote:

scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> writes:>

No clue, sorry, I'm using YA-NewsWatcher.

If you've got a minute, I'd be interested to hear a comparison between
the various versions of NewsWatcher, e.g. YA-, MT-, VA-

I have used YA and MT, and also Thoth which is pretty similar, but it
was about a decade ago that I last used MT so I can't recall the
nuances.

They're all much of a muchness, imo. I'm enjoying using YA now more
than I was enjoying Thoth, though. Can't put my finger on why, because
they are very similar, I guess that YA feels a little less clunky than
Thoth.
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