[gopher] ANNOUNCE: New Web Portal for USENET

[Randall Wood]

For MacOS, Unison is a good Usenet client (not by the standards of SLRN, 
Pan, etc but it will get you online and has some innovations of its own 
and is fast/pretty).  I too am in the market for a Chromebook solution - 
currently have to shell out to a VPS I run.  Hopefully the new 
chromebooks that run Android apps will solve the problem, as there are 
several so-so Usenet readers for Android (Phonews, NNTPReader, 
Groundhog).



------ Original Message ------
From: "mel" <macpro.maillist at gmail.com>
To: "Gopher Project Discussion" <gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: 10/24/2017 2:50:32 PM
Subject: Re: [gopher] ANNOUNCE: New Web Portal for USENET

>Looks cool and works for people like me who like a simple user 
>interface without all the clutter of Google or regular websites. Plus I 
>know of no usenet newsreaders for both MacOS or Chromebook, platforms 
>that I commonly use. Plus I think this will work on my Android phone 
>and my aging Nintendo DSi which I use for text browsing websites like 
>Floodgap Gopher and SDF Gopher, etc.
>
>On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Mr. Leveck <leveck at leveck.us> wrote:
>>Nice and clean. Bookmarked for potential use in the future. Good job.
>>
>>I typically use NNTP via SSH into RPoD (my Raspberry Pi that's 
>>internet hitable), due to the afore mentioned syncing issue with 
>>USENET.
>>
>>--
>>Leveck
>>
>>19. Oct 2017 04:16 by jaruzel at jaruzel.com:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>What with the ongoing discussion on where the list is going, and lots 
>>>of
>>>peoples adversion to USENET and Google Groups (the latter of which I
>>>also dislike), I spent a couple of hours last night, coding up this:
>>>
>>>http://www.jaruzel.com/apps/usenet
>>>
>>>It's 100% a proof of concept, and very rough around the edges, and 
>>>also
>>>doesn't have any posting ability (yet!), but it's something I've been
>>>meaning to do for quite some time, as there are quite a few low 
>>>traffic
>>>USENET groups I want to start following regularly.
>>>
>>>So, is this useful or not? If it was fleshed out into a proper 
>>>platform
>>>would people use it? Does it help in the on-going conversation of
>>>whether to migrate to comp.infosystems.gopher or not?
>>>
>>>Of course, it's not that hard to evolve what I've got to include a
>>>mailing list function and a proper domain for it to live on etc. 
>>>Which I
>>>am happy to host and manage.
>>>
>>>If there's no takers, then fine. As I said it's something I've wanted 
>>>to
>>>have anyway... :)
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Matt (Jaruzel)
>>>
>>>
>>>
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