It would actually be great if there were a way we could connect to news servers directly via NNTP to
transfer newsgroups.
I just added Usenet using SBBS' native ability to do so. I'm not sure its a value add.
There is such much garbage in Usenet now, most of the forums are filled with wierd racist rants and religious screeds. There are tons of spammers and bots that send the same 5000 line message full of links with different subject lines and user names so you can't filter it. I've been trying to narrow it down to the small amount of newsgroups used by humans to have intelligent conversation, and there are very few.
It's sad that such a once-valuable resource has been subverted with such slime. Like one of those fantasy novels where the wizards all went insane because Magic became corrupted by a great evil.
Bob Roberts
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