[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Retro Guy]

On Sat, 4 Nov 2023 15:46:25 +0000
Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:

> On 04/11/2023 15:25, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> > John Reagan  <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I've been doing this manually and also reported to Google thru other channe=
> >> ls.  No difference so far.
> > 
> > Google is not the solution.  Google is the problem.  Expecting anyone at
> > Google to ever do anything about their customers' constant and incessant
> > abuse of Usenet is futile.  It has been going on for decades now and
> > complaints to Google have never done any good.
> > 
> > Get off Google, and get onto a legitimate Usenet service.  Many of them
> > block postings from Google, and the ones that don't will allow you a
> > normal newsreader which has services to block this stuff.
> > --scott
> 
> Who would you recommend as a legitimate Usenet service? Eternal 
> September seem to do what they can, but of late have swamped...

news.eternal-september.org is excellent, just going through some improvements
right now so a little downtime is to be expected. The admin is very competent.

Try news.i2pn2.org if you like (note: I'm the admin). It's filtered.
There are others also.

> I also have an issue with news readers. I use Thunderbird, but for news 
> it is fairly rubbish

I agree with that. I'm not a fan of Thunderbird for news. I'm pretty happy
with sylpheed. It's not perfect, but much better than thunderbird. On Windows
40tude Dialog is pretty nice and has a lot of features. Runs in wine on Linux
also.

-- 
Retro Guy