Hi all,

As a part of the research that I am doing, I am reposting old, useful,
and interesting articles to alt.usenet.repost. Most of these have been
gone from Usenet for many years. Please feel free to comment, make
suggestions on articles, and post your own to an otherwise dead and spam-
free newsgroup.

--
JE

Thanks for the heads up. I will check it out.

On 2021-06-06, Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As a part of the research that I am doing, I am reposting old, useful,
> and interesting articles to alt.usenet.repost. Most of these have been
> gone from Usenet for many years. Please feel free to comment, make
> suggestions on articles, and post your own to an otherwise dead and spam-
> free newsgroup.
>
>

Op 6-6-2021 om 19:03 schreef Jason Evans:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As a part of the research that I am doing, I am reposting old, useful,
> and interesting articles to alt.usenet.repost. Most of these have been
> gone from Usenet for many years. Please feel free to comment, make
> suggestions on articles, and post your own to an otherwise dead and spam-
> free newsgroup.
>
>

Hello Jason,

I found this newsgroup on aioe and neodom, but not on erternal-september.

I asked to add alt.usenet.repost in the grouprequest group of
eternal-september

Rink

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:29:40 +0200, Rink wrote:

> Hello Jason,
>
> I found this newsgroup on aioe and neodom, but not on
> erternal-september.
>
> I asked to add alt.usenet.repost in the grouprequest group of
> eternal-september
>
> Rink

That's strange that they don't carry it. It is in the list of newsgroups
at isc.org. I wonder if this was just an oversight from a long time ago.

Jason

Jason,

Here's the answer of Adam in the newsgroup
eternal-september.grouprequests

I was not allowed to crosspost, so I sent it separately to
alt.fan.usenet

Rink

------------------

Op 16-6-2021 om 13:39 schreef Rink:
> Op 15-6-2021 om 15:35 schreef Adam H. Kerman:
>> Rink <rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> Please, can you add this newsgroup?
>>
>>> alt.usenet.repost
>>
>> I don't know what he's playing at but there is no archived newgroup
>> message. It wasn't discussed in alt.config where he'd have been told to
>> use existing newsgroups for Usenet history or the appropriate talk.*
>> group in one of htem thar hierarchies he administers.
>>
>> Ray will not create an alt.* group without an archived newgroup message.
>>
>
>
> Hello Adam,
>
> I do not know enough about how a newsgroup has to be created.
> I do not know if there is an archived newgroup message.
> (I do not know where to find such a message, maybe years ago?)
> I googled but only found the message of Jason which is at the bottom of
> this message.
>
> Maybe you better talk to Jason direct.
> I tried to crosspost this message with alt.fan.usenet, but that's not
> allowed.
> So I will send it separate to alt.fan.usenet
>
> Rink
>
>
>
>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rink
>>
>>> ---------------
>>
>>> Op 6-6-2021 om 19:03 schreef Jason Evans:
>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>
>>>> As a part of the research that I am doing, I am reposting old, useful,
>>>> and interesting articles to alt.usenet.repost. Most of these have been
>>>> gone from Usenet for many years. Please feel free to comment, make
>>>> suggestions on articles, and post your own to an otherwise dead and
>>>> spam-
>>>> free newsgroup.
>

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:43:04 +0200, Rink wrote:

>>>> alt.usenet.repost
>>>
>>> I don't know what he's playing at but there is no archived newgroup
>>> message. It wasn't discussed in alt.config where he'd have been told
>>> to use existing newsgroups for Usenet history or the appropriate
>>> talk.* group in one of htem thar hierarchies he administers.
>>>
>>> Ray will not create an alt.* group without an archived newgroup
>>> message.

That's so weird. I just started posting in a dead newsgroup and someone
wants to have a problem with that. I'll post in the eternal-september
newsgroup later.

Anyway, that newsgroup has been around since 1995. Here's the info and
the charter

------

From rob@agate.berkeley.edu Mon May 22 15:15:48 1995
Path: uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-
winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.mindlink.net!agate!
agate.berkeley.edu!rob
Date: 22 May 1995 10:57:31 PDT
From: rob@agate.berkeley.edu
Subject: cmsg newgroup alt.usenet.reposts
Control: newgroup alt.usenet.reposts
Newsgroups: alt.usenet.reposts.ctl
Message-ID: <rob-alt.usenet.reposts-22-May-1995-105731-
PDT@agate.berkeley.edu>
Approved: rob
Distribution: world
Lines: 17
Xref: uunet control:2052159

For your newsgroups file:
alt.usenet.reposts Reposts of funny, interesting, or thought-
provoking usenet articles
Description: The newsgroup alt.usenet.reposts (AUR) was created to
contain articles that people have read in other newsgroups and which other
people might find amusing or interesting: there are over 10,000 groups out
there, and even if you wanted to, you couldn't read every one. Instead,
you can read AUR, and read about the violent end of flame wars, newbieisms
too clueless for words, witty responses and other articles that a wider
audience might find interesting. AUR is for reposts ONLY! Discussion of
articles posted to AUG should take place on alt.usenet.reposts.d

Charter: Alt.Usenet.Reposts (AUR) is dedicated to giving people a
place to repost funny, entertaining, intelligent, thought-provoking, or
otherwise interesting articles from usenet newsgroups so that all usenet
users can have the chance to read these articles which they might
otherwise miss.

See: https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/alt/alt.usenet.reposts.gz
and https://ftp.isc.org/usenet/control/alt/alt.usenet.reposts.d.gz

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:10:41 -0000 (UTC), Jason Evans wrote:

One more thing, it is "alt.usenet.reposts" and not "alt.usenet.repost".
That was my typo.

Jason

Op 16-6-2021 om 15:12 schreef Jason Evans:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:10:41 -0000 (UTC), Jason Evans wrote:
>
> One more thing, it is "alt.usenet.reposts" and not "alt.usenet.repost".
> That was my typo.
>
> Jason
>

And I repeated it :-)

With a search for repost, I did find the newsgroup and subscribed.

Rink

Op 16-6-2021 om 16:21 schreef Rink:
> Op 16-6-2021 om 15:12 schreef Jason Evans:
>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:10:41 -0000 (UTC), Jason Evans wrote:
>>
>> One more thing, it is "alt.usenet.reposts" and not "alt.usenet.repost".
>> That was my typo.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>
>
> And I repeated it   :-)
>
> With a search for repost, I did find the newsgroup and subscribed.
>
> Rink

The above line was for aioe and neodome.

But yesterday evening the newsgroups has been added by Ray at the
eternal-september newsserver.

Rink

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:21:03 +0200, Rink
<rink.hof.haalditmaarweg@planet.nl> wrote:

>Op 16-6-2021 om 15:12 schreef Jason Evans:
>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:10:41 -0000 (UTC), Jason Evans wrote:
>>
>> One more thing, it is "alt.usenet.reposts" and not "alt.usenet.repost".
>> That was my typo.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>
>
>And I repeated it :-)
>
>With a search for repost, I did find the newsgroup and subscribed.
>
>Rink

Interesting, I'm not able to find it with my provider either.

Francis S <whatisemail@mail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting, I'm not able to find it with my provider either.
>

I am also using Newshosting and I know why you cannot find it.
It is because the name of the group is alt.usenet.reposts

They forgot to add the s

--
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~ Love like you've never been hurt. ~
~ Dance like nobody is looking. ~

On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:18:53 GMT, alien <alien@invalid.address> wrote:

>Francis S <whatisemail@mail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting, I'm not able to find it with my provider either.
>>
>
>I am also using Newshosting and I know why you cannot find it.
>It is because the name of the group is alt.usenet.reposts
>
>They forgot to add the s

That would do it, found and subscribed! Thanks.