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  • Re: FOSS In Action -- A Living Example

    From RonB@ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Jan 5 04:13:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On 2026-01-04, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
    Farley Flud wrote:

    Pan is a fantastic newsreader especially for binary groups,
    and it is binary groups that are the lifeblood of Usenet.

    Really? What's there that is so thrilling?

    I'm shocked he's not using slrn.
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  • From Farley Flud@fsquared@fsquared.linux to comp.os.linux.advocacy on Mon Jan 5 11:42:30 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy

    On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:50:51 -0600, chrisv wrote:


    Pan is a fantastic newsreader especially for binary groups,
    and it is binary groups that are the lifeblood of Usenet.

    Really? What's there that is so thrilling?


    Surely you are joking.

    There's everything that anyone could want -- digitally speaking.

    There's audio, video, pics, ebooks, and more galore.

    The problem is finding the material that you are seeking and
    a lot of it is protected by the uploader.

    But the binary retention is 10 years or more.

    Moreover, it is quite safe. Once, I received a notice from my ISP
    that my IP address was flagged for some sort of DRM violation. That
    would never happen with Usenet.

    So get a good Usenet provider and then get Pan. Then start increasing
    your digitial collections by orders of magnitude.

    Also get par2 and unrar.

    There must be petabytes of binary stuff uploaded daily. I wonder how
    those servers can cope.
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