Re: Repost from outside of Google: Google Groups woes again.

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

Egan Ford wrote:
> On 2012-02-06 10:31:50 -0700, Linards Ticmanis said:
> 
>> On 02/06/2012 05:51 PM, Egan Ford wrote:
>>> Usually when Google Usenet Groups has a problem it's that posts from
>>> outside of Google's Usenet service take a long time to appear.  Now I
>>> am seeing the opposite.  The news server that I use from my ISP is
>>> getting posts from everywhere but Google.
>>> 
>>> Anyone else seeing this?
>> 
>> Yes indeed. It's all missing from news.arcor.de. So I guess Google is
>> the culprit, as usual.
>> 
>> Dear Google Groups users: that means currently us who don't usually go
>> there (except for search purposes) can't read anything you're posting.
>> Please consider posting from somewhere else.
>> 
>> Although I guess I'm behind the times in still thinking of Google as
>> nothing more than a slightly glorified search engine...
> 
> I know that this has been discussed before, perhaps its time to discuss
> again.
> 
> What are the alternatives?  What are others using?  If using an NNTP 
> server, what client on what OS?  If web-based, URL.  Thanks.
> 

I post from the web interface at Mac GUI:

http://macgui.com/usenet/

It fetches new articles every 30 minutes. There is a full 20 year archive of
comp.sys.apple2, plus many other Apple II and Macintosh newsgroups.

For direct NNTP access, I recommend bbs-scene.org

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