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On D, Daniel Goldsmith <
dgold@dgold.invalid> wrote:
On 2025-07-03, andrew <andrew@skamandros.invalid> wrote:
My subscription with individual.net is coming up for renewal soon and
after many, many years on Usenet, and in particular here on NSR, I will
be allowing it to lapse. Time to move on and take only positive memories
of my time here.
I'm unsure why you're just letting it all go. Free providers are there,
cheap providers exist if you need binaries. But that's a you decision.
It's not clear from his post why andrew is leaving USENET; although he hints that negative things are beginning to happen in USENET, as he thinks it's
"time to move on and take only positive memories".
Well, USENET has not changed much in the last ten years, so I don't know
what creeping negativity he is seeing.
Are there many of the old time slrn users left here? And if so what are your future plans on Usenet and NSR?
Well, while not especially active, I first used slrn when I installed installed it on a VMS back in 1994. Have been using it, off and on, ever since -- mainly because to me, slrn _is_ news.
I started using USENET with PINE on an OSF/1 timesharing machine at Uni,
around 1996. Then I used the Messaging app of Netscape Communicator when I
got dial-up access from home to the intertubes. However, this post is sent
from slrn 0.9.4.3 running on FreeBSD 2.2.5 on a 8 MB Pentium-1 laptop,
because small is beautiful. USENET to me has always been a refuge from noise and acceleration.
I have my own INN2 server now, with a small number of (mostly) active
groups coming in from the outside, and while I read a lot, I don't
always participate in the way that I used to. I'll keep it running as
long as I can, though.
I run a modest leafnode, which is enough for my needs, and allows me to
easily read USENET from several vintage machines I have.
Regards.
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