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certainly for more than three decades, unmoderated usenet newsgroups
have been the untamed wild west of internet-accessible public forums,
as anyone could post plain text articles averting content moderation,
making unmoderated usenet the only public repository on planet earth that has not been routinely subjected to moderation, i.e. censorship

newsreader filters are typically used to improve the signal-to-noise
ratio inherent in these uncensored message boards, by manually white-
listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else, most all newsreaders have filtering options, allow multiservers, etc.

(using Tor Browser 15.0.11) >http://usenet-fr.yakakwatik.org/newsreaders.html

Last update: 05/06/2025
Introduction
Newsreaders
40Tude Dialog (Windows)
Betterbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Claws-Mail (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Evolution (Linux)
flnews (Linux, UNIX systems)
Gnus (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Gravity (Windows)
MacCafe (macOS)
MacSOUP (macOS = 10.14)
MesNews (Windows)
ModNewsreader (Android and its forks)
Pan (Linux / macOS)
SeaMonkey (Linux / Windows / macOS)
slrn (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Sylpheed (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Thunderbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
tin (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Xananews (Windows)
Xnews (Windows)
References and useful links

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client-side newsreader filtering is essential to usenet's usefulness,
listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else

web-based usenet servers certainly have their usefulness too, telnet
is also very helpful, but for those who recall using "deja news" for
newsgroup browsing, searching, posting, replying, it worked reliably
up to until about twenty-five years ago, then "google groups" worked
for a couple of years, but after 2004 (twenty-two years ago), it was
clear to everyone that gg had become unreliable, no longer useful as
a usenet archive search engine, but did apparently work famously for
flooding usenet beyond all other servers combined, reigning champion

and yet, after forty-five long years, tiny usenet just won't go away,
hence has been the forum of choice for nonconformists, free thinkers, outsiders, specifically because unmoderated newsgroups are available,
and apart from server-side spam filters, expirations, removals, etc., uncensored content is posted intact . . . social media can't compete,
and some nntp newsservers carry binary groups, for those so inclined

usenet probably serves other purposes lesser known or even unheardof,
but in general terms, it's a means of communication unique to itself,
its audience many contributors but mostly lurkers, a silent majority, so though it may seem as if no one is reading, be sure that they are


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From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

On 05 May 2026, D <noreply@mixmin.net> posted some news:20260505.155254.8155d2d8@mixmin.net:

certainly for more than three decades, unmoderated usenet newsgroups
have been the untamed wild west of internet-accessible public forums,
as anyone could post plain text articles averting content
moderation, making unmoderated usenet the only public repository on
planet earth that has not been routinely subjected to
moderation, i.e. censorship

newsreader filters are typically used to improve the signal-to-noise
ratio inherent in these uncensored message boards, by manually white- listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else,
most all newsreaders have filtering options, allow multiservers,
etc.

(using Tor Browser 15.0.11)

http://usenet-fr.yakakwatik.org/newsreaders.html
Last update: 05/06/2025
Introduction
Newsreaders
40Tude Dialog (Windows)
Betterbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Claws-Mail (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Evolution (Linux)
flnews (Linux, UNIX systems)
Gnus (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Gravity (Windows)
MacCafe (macOS)
MacSOUP (macOS = 10.14)
MesNews (Windows)
ModNewsreader (Android and its forks)
Pan (Linux / macOS)
SeaMonkey (Linux / Windows / macOS)
slrn (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Sylpheed (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Thunderbird (Linux / Windows / macOS)
tin (Linux / Windows / macOS)
Xananews (Windows)
Xnews (Windows)
References and useful links

[end quote]

client-side newsreader filtering is essential to usenet's usefulness,
listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else


web-based usenet servers certainly have their usefulness too, telnet
is also very helpful, but for those who recall using "deja news" for newsgroup browsing, searching, posting, replying, it worked reliably
up to until about twenty-five years ago, then "google groups" worked
for a couple of years, but after 2004 (twenty-two years ago), it was
clear to everyone that gg had become unreliable, no longer useful as
a usenet archive search engine, but did apparently work famously for flooding usenet beyond all other servers combined, reigning champion

and yet, after forty-five long years, tiny usenet just won't go away,
hence has been the forum of choice for nonconformists, free thinkers, outsiders, specifically because unmoderated newsgroups are available,
and apart from server-side spam filters, expirations, removals,
etc., uncensored content is posted intact . . . social media
can't compete, and some nntp newsservers carry binary groups, for
those so inclined

usenet probably serves other purposes lesser known or even unheardof,
but in general terms, it's a means of communication unique to itself,
its audience many contributors but mostly lurkers, a silent majority,
so though it may seem as if no one is reading, be sure that
they are

I find it very gratifying when an exact quote of one of my posts shows up
in the media or a blog somewhere.

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From Newsgroup: alt.free.newsservers

On Tue, 12 May 2026 10:23:28 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote
in message-id: <d1b4094e92c319700fc97ab9e2c647fb@dizum.com>, cross-posted to: >Newsgroups: alt.anarchism, alt.censorship, alt.free.newsservers, alt.free.nntp,

alt.freespeech

On 05 May 2026, D <noreply@mixmin.net> posted some >news:20260505.155254.8155d2d8@mixmin.net:

certainly for more than three decades, unmoderated usenet newsgroups
have been the untamed wild west of internet-accessible public forums,
as anyone could post plain text articles averting content moderation,
making unmoderated usenet the only public repository on planet earth
that has not been routinely subjected to moderation, i.e. censorship
newsreader filters are typically used to improve the signal-to-noise
ratio inherent in these uncensored message boards, by manually white-
listing helpful content while automatically ignoring everything else

snip

I find it very gratifying when an exact quote of one of my posts shows
up in the media or a blog somewhere.

the mainstream media narrative is essentially "cross-posted" throughout
the world . . . earthly humans are terrene, worldly creatures, attached
to their planet with its tilted axis, confusing those paths adverse the perpendicular, e.g., they label earth's terrestrial equator "celestial",
mixing prevarication with verification, inherently accepting the schism separating the earth from the heavens, making inimic aliens of the dead, alienating themselves inside their earth-bound cocoon . . . imagination
is major, inventing science fiction, sending earthlings into deep space,
to go boldly where no mortal human has gone before, bold-faced figments,
which among their most iterated are "jesus saves", "we went to the moon"

earth-moon distance
(not to scale)

x-----moon's mean geocentric distance 238,854 miles-----x
| 230,000 |
| 220,000 |
| 210,000 |
| 200,000 |
| 190,000 |
| 180,000 |
| 170,000 |
| 160,000 |
| 150,000 |
| 140,000 |
| 130,000 |
| 120,000 |
| 110,000 |
| 100,000 |
| 90,000 |
| 80,000 |
| 70,000 |
| 60,000 |
| 50,000 |
| 40,000 |
| 30,000 |
x----geostationary orbit ~22,300 miles altitude---------x
x----mid-altitude orbit ~12,500 miles altitude---------x
x----low-altitude orbit up to ~1200 miles altitude------x
x----nasa space shuttle orbit ~300 miles altitude------x
x----intl space station orbit ~220 miles altitude------x
x----earth's mean sea level ~0 miles altitude------x
x----earth's mean geocenter ~3,960 miles depth bsl-----x

e.g., geostationary orbit is one hundred (~100) times farther away
from the earth than the intl. space station orbit (i.e. 22000/220),
the moon is approximately one _thousand_ (1000) times farther away
than corporeal (organic) life-sustainable altitude above the earth,
as angels sojourn beyond the earth naturally, but not in the flesh

and they sure like that number "one thousand", e.g. they can reign
with jesus for a thousand years, such imagery they piously worship
as if worldly things, so they build temples, churches, skyscrapers
reaching toward the stars, all the while the flesh and bone bodies
tethered by natural forces to the sublunar orb they call their own

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