Re: does anyone even use usenet

On 11/08/2024 21:12, Justisaur wrote:

On 8/11/2024 9:43 AM, Danoxary wrote:

What client are you guys using to write on here? What service?

 https://www.eternal-september.org/
 with Thunderbird, both free.  Thunderbird is a bit buggy though for usenet, I'm considering paying for Agent, which at least used to be the best for reading/posting text.
 I'm not into the binaries, there's only pay services & clients for that and from what I can tell none of those deal with text worth a darn.
 I preferred using google groups as I could look stuff up easily enough, which for some reason doesn't work in Thunderbird worth a darn
 

ES is what I use with Thunderbird and so far pretty happy. The only issue I did have, which fortunately seems to have gone away, is quite often it just wouldn't want to send a message and you had to save it and try again or randomly click on a few posts and hope it came back to life.
What I do get now is if you take too long (not sure how long that is) to finish a post then the connection seems to timeout so the first time you press send it fails so you have to send it again and it works.