You'd think Usenet is just perfect for vintage Mac fans - it's low-tech and runs
fine on a Mac Plus. You can post right from the very machines you're talking
about. If I check other vintage computers, their newsgroups appears to have at
least some more traffic. So why isn't this place more lively?

On a sidenote: anyone on here via Terminal on a vintage Mac (e.g. ZTerm?) Does
that even still work for accessing Usenet?

In article <info-5263FF.15382419042024@news.individual.de>, Sebastian
P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:

> You'd think Usenet is just perfect for vintage Mac fans - it's low-tech and
> runs
> fine on a Mac Plus. You can post right from the very machines you're talking
> about. If I check other vintage computers, their newsgroups appears to have
> at
> least some more traffic. So why isn't this place more lively?

Agreed. I actually, as we speak, have an article in draft for
vintageapplemac.com where I'm encouraging Mac users to hit Usenet up,
now that "Eternal February" is with us post-Google, Usenet could be a
real boon for vintage computer users, almost our own enclave! I will be
posting it at the weekend, if I manage to entice a single vintage Mac
user to take a look here, that'd be a win.

> On a sidenote: anyone on here via Terminal on a vintage Mac (e.g. ZTerm?)
> Does
> that even still work for accessing Usenet?

No clue, sorry, I'm using YA-NewsWatcher.

scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> writes:

> In article <info-5263FF.15382419042024@news.individual.de>, Sebastian
> P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:
>
>> You'd think Usenet is just perfect for vintage Mac fans - it's low-tech and
>> runs
>> fine on a Mac Plus. You can post right from the very machines you're talking
>> about. If I check other vintage computers, their newsgroups appears to have
>> at
>> least some more traffic. So why isn't this place more lively?
>
> Agreed. I actually, as we speak, have an article in draft for
> vintageapplemac.com where I'm encouraging Mac users to hit Usenet up,
> now that "Eternal February" is with us post-Google, Usenet could be a
> real boon for vintage computer users, almost our own enclave! I will be
> posting it at the weekend, if I manage to entice a single vintage Mac
> user to take a look here, that'd be a win.

Good luck!

>> On a sidenote: anyone on here via Terminal on a vintage Mac (e.g. ZTerm?)
>> Does
>> that even still work for accessing Usenet?

You could use ZTerm to connect to a Unix system via serial or modem,
then run a command-line newsreader. Not very Mac-ish, of course.

> No clue, sorry, I'm using YA-NewsWatcher.

If you've got a minute, I'd be interested to hear a comparison between
the various versions of NewsWatcher, e.g. YA-, MT-, VA-

john

In article <864jbp14pz.fsf@building-m.net>,
John <john@building-m.simplistic-anti-spam-measure.net> wrote:

> scole <vintageapplemac@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > In article <info-5263FF.15382419042024@news.individual.de>, Sebastian
> > P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:
> >
> >> You'd think Usenet is just perfect for vintage Mac fans - it's low-tech
> >> and
> >> runs
> >> fine on a Mac Plus. You can post right from the very machines you're
> >> talking
> >> about. If I check other vintage computers, their newsgroups appears to
> >> have
> >> at
> >> least some more traffic. So why isn't this place more lively?
> >
> > Agreed. I actually, as we speak, have an article in draft for
> > vintageapplemac.com where I'm encouraging Mac users to hit Usenet up,
> > now that "Eternal February" is with us post-Google, Usenet could be a
> > real boon for vintage computer users, almost our own enclave! I will be
> > posting it at the weekend, if I manage to entice a single vintage Mac
> > user to take a look here, that'd be a win.
>
> Good luck!
>
> >> On a sidenote: anyone on here via Terminal on a vintage Mac (e.g. ZTerm?)
> >> Does
> >> that even still work for accessing Usenet?
>
> You could use ZTerm to connect to a Unix system via serial or modem,
> then run a command-line newsreader. Not very Mac-ish, of course.
>
>
> > No clue, sorry, I'm using YA-NewsWatcher.
>
> If you've got a minute, I'd be interested to hear a comparison between
> the various versions of NewsWatcher, e.g. YA-, MT-, VA-
>
>
>
> john

Usenet is really vintage friendly, indeed. And there's plenty of
newsreaders around that work really well. I'm using MT-NewsWatcher to
write this on my PowerBook G4 Titanium.

Let's hope for a UseNet renaissance!

Knezzen <contact@unixfiles.org> writes:

> Usenet is really vintage friendly, indeed. And there's plenty of
> newsreaders around that work really well. I'm using MT-NewsWatcher to
> write this on my PowerBook G4 Titanium.
>
> Let's hope for a UseNet renaissance!

I have no doubt Usenet will outlive the last set of non-broken TiBook
hinges.

One reason I don't use mine much anymore is the terrible groaning creak
it makes when I open the lid. I just dread that inevitable CRACK.

john

Knezzen <contact@unixfiles.org> wrote:

[...]
> Usenet is really vintage friendly, indeed. And there's plenty of
> newsreaders around that work really well. I'm using MT-NewsWatcher to
> write this on my PowerBook G4 Titanium.

I'm using MacSOUP 2.4.6 on a beige G3 running OS 8.6

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