Re: Newsgrouper Update

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 19:49:23 +0200, morena <morena@morena.rip> wrote:

On 10/24/24 6:54 PM, D wrote:

newsgrouper search returned "article not found". . .

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Newsgrouper's source is Eternal September which currently does not have
older articles due to some technical issues.
So currently I assume you will not find anything older there.

p.s.

that oldest message-id <bdqnl9.2ag.1@ID-66775.user.dfncis.de> copied
from the "blueworld" server (dated 2003/07/01, twenty-one years ago)
was found in https://newsgrouper.org.uk/news.software.readers/search
by searching for the article subject "let's start a xananews thread":

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From: Allan Girvan <allangirvan@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Let's Start a XanaNews Thread
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 01:20:42 +0100
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On 01 Jul 2003, Terry wrote:
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Who's using it and what are the good and bad points? I've been
playing with it this evening and am fairly impressed at first
sight. I've not investigated its multi server binary functionality
yet...

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Nor me!
>
I'm a committed Xnews user but I'm aware that Luu has pretty much
given up on Xnews development.
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I took a look at Dialog and was impressed but there was something
about it I just didn't like (I have no idea what it was - it just
didn't *feel* right).
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Xananews, on the other hand, looks and feels like a winner. I'm
sticking with Xnews for the time being but I think that Xananews may
well become my newsreader of choice. (I'll not commit myself until it
lets me set up separate folders to allow me to gather various
subscribed newsgroups under generic headings - one of the things that
Xnews does really well.)
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Other than that, I have no criticisms - an excellent program.
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Cheers,
>
>
Allan.
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it seems certain that google isn't about to let go of their dejanews
cash cow any time soon, so this type of web interface "piggybacking"
on popular open newsservers could become more of a trend, as perhaps
more newsservers and similar "web2news" sites may share the increase
in user demand for such convenience in the wake of google's farewell

smartphone users, and less tech-savvy, are especially hamstrung from
usenet participation . . . the novabbs "rocksolid light" works great
but is limited to select newsgroups; whereas these major newsservers
include tens of thousands of newsgroups, this is sure to get noticed