Sirius writes: > Usenet is rather quiet these days, something I hope will change once > people tire of web-forums that is more preoccupied with showing you > ads than they are solving your problem.
Not as long as browsers fail to support it and the myth that it cannot handle anything but plain text persists. That's a Big Eight rule, not a limitation on the software. It is obsolete and should be dropped. It doesn't even apply to the alt hierarchy. NNTP is a peer-to-peer protocol: you also don't need centralized servers. In the old days it took a T1 and a VAX but now anyone with a laptop, a fixed IP (or IPV6) and Starlink or fiber could outperform IHNP4. I don't think a graphical Usenet client exists but it easily could. Even easier might be a browser plugin. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA
