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[Scott Dorsey]

Andrew Shaw  <andrew at feeandl.com> wrote:
>On Friday, October 2, 2020 at 11:36:46 AM UTC+10, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Why are you using google at all? 
>
>Scott, I am curious - what interface do you use?

Me?  I still use rn without threading.  But there are many dozens of 
different newsreaders out there which are more advanced.

>I also hate the Google one, but so far haven't been able to find a better client that doesn't involve paying for a server news feed, but I am more than happy to pay if I can find a reliable news server. They seem to be a dying breed as well. 

Well, a lot of people use eternal-september.

>I'm very interested to learn how you get your feed.

Personally, I spend $10/month for a shell account at Panix.  It gives me 
email and news from a shell prompt on a machine running NetBSD, as well
as some minimal web hosting and storage.  I wouldn't recommend doing that
if you just want news service, I'd just get an account with an nntp service
like eternal-september and run your newsreader locally.

Anything is better than google groups.
--scott
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