On 18/10/15 23:39, Bob Hobden wrote:
"Vir Campestris" wrote

Christina Websell wrote:
The death knell was when UK
ISP's stopped supporting it

Not all of them. And it's on my requirements list if I should change.

There are also some free news providers.


There are? I know of only one, I tried teranews and they took my one off
money and a few weeks later closed their free server, nice.

http://www.albasani.net/index.html.en

I've been using it for years. Very reliable.

I think the death of newsgroups started with the rise in web based mail. In
the old days you had to configure an email client program to do emails and
within those programs were the words "Newsgroups", even in Outlook Express,
and, as I did, you clicked on it and found out about them. With web based
mail you never see the word Newsgroups so new internet users have never
heard of them and even if they did would have no idea how to get to them.
Computers no longer come with a suitable program (or should I say app).

The main problem is the dearth of good Usenet client apps for Android (I
have no idea if there are any for iphones or ipads). I believe that the
only reasonable app for android is PiaoHong. There is a free version,
but I think there are ads which appear. The paid version is free of ads
and more powerful. Many of the other apps for Usenet are read-only.

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Jeff