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    From nathanael@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 27 00:31:18 2024
    Just a test to see if I've got Thunderbird working.

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  • From Alan Laughton@21:1/5 to nathanael on Tue Feb 27 13:07:05 2024
    On 27/02/2024 3:31 am, nathanael wrote:
    Just a test to see if I've got Thunderbird working.
    Thunderbird has worked well for many years for me.
    Alan

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  • From nathanael@21:1/5 to nathanael on Sun Mar 10 21:18:57 2024
    On 2/27/24 00:31, nathanael wrote:
    Just a test to see if I've got Thunderbird working.
    Thunderbird seems to be working, but I've only seen two messages in
    comp.os.cpm in a couple of weeks. Is the newsgroup dead, or is it just me?

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  • From yeti@21:1/5 to nathanael on Sun Mar 10 15:04:15 2024
    nathanael <leekaiwen@yahoo.com> writes:

    Thunderbird seems to be working,

    \o/

    but I've only seen two messages in comp.os.cpm in a couple of
    weeks. Is the newsgroup dead, or is it just me?

    I've no idea yet how many GG users have not found a Usenet provider or
    aren't even trying. Maybe we really have lost some important
    neighbours. CP/M will stay being a nice topic and the ones having
    pointers to comp.os.cpm in their CP/M websites, blogs, YT channels, GIT repositories, ... please should update these to reflect the new
    situation and point to some well known Usenet providers.
    Adding/updating links to comp.os.cpm posts in blogs & Co to use a
    service like <https://comp.os.cpm.narkive.com> may be useful too.

    --
    I do not bite, I just want to play.

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  • From Nils M Holm@21:1/5 to yeti on Sun Mar 10 15:03:37 2024
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
    I've no idea yet how many GG users have not found a Usenet provider or
    aren't even trying. [...]

    Ah, so that's what might be happening. Sad, becuse I would not touch
    GG with a ten-foot pole. Anyway, I'm still here and reading your
    messages.

    --
    Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > http://t3x.org

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  • From nathanael@21:1/5 to yeti on Sun Mar 10 23:52:07 2024
    On 3/10/24 22:22, yeti wrote:
    nathanael <leekaiwen@yahoo.com> writes:

    Thunderbird seems to be working,

    \o/

    but I've only seen two messages in comp.os.cpm in a couple of
    weeks. Is the newsgroup dead, or is it just me?

    I've no idea yet how many GG users have not found a Usenet provider or
    aren't even trying. Maybe we really have lost some important
    neighbours. CP/M will stay being a nice topic and the ones having
    pointers to comp.os.cpm in their CP/M websites, blogs, YT channels, GIT repositories, ... please should update these to reflect the new
    situation and point to some well known Usenet providers.
    Adding/updating links to comp.os.cpm posts in blogs & Co to use a
    service like <https://comp.os.cpm.narkive.com> may be useful too.

    Ah, is that it? Seems like half a year ago the group was still pretty
    active and the dropoff in activity was fairly sudden.

    I've been a comp.os.cpm reader (and, less often, postter) since its
    heyday in the '80s. It will be quit a loss if it dies.

    Nathanael Culver - HUMONGOUS CP/M

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  • From Richard L. Hamilton@21:1/5 to yeti on Sat Mar 23 12:14:48 2024
    In article <875xxu5fqg.fsf_-_@tilde.institute>,
    yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:
    nathanael <leekaiwen@yahoo.com> writes:

    Thunderbird seems to be working,

    \o/

    but I've only seen two messages in comp.os.cpm in a couple of
    weeks. Is the newsgroup dead, or is it just me?

    I've no idea yet how many GG users have not found a Usenet provider or
    aren't even trying. Maybe we really have lost some important
    neighbours. CP/M will stay being a nice topic and the ones having
    pointers to comp.os.cpm in their CP/M websites, blogs, YT channels, GIT repositories, ... please should update these to reflect the new
    situation and point to some well known Usenet providers.
    Adding/updating links to comp.os.cpm posts in blogs & Co to use a
    service like <https://comp.os.cpm.narkive.com> may be useful too.


    Some valuable participants will doubtless no longer make an appearance. But
    a lot of noisy, spammy, clueless people will be gone too, since getting
    proper Usenet access takes a bit of effort and/or $.

    Way back when, before the first major wave of the largely unwashed, Usenet
    was mostly techie (or in some groups, I suppose liberal-artsy) content, not junk.

    --
    Bogonics: the primary language inside the Beltway

    Lasik/PRK theme music:
    "In the Hall of the Mountain King", from "Peer Gynt"
    (read act 2, scene 6 of the play if that doesn't make sense)

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