#NETNews
tay frosty. This has been your Netnews relay. Flatline out.

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November 13, 2026 at 4:11 PM
>> NIGHT CITY NETNEWS // PRIORITY BURST // RELAY VIA DATA TERM 7 <<

Listen up, chooms. If your inbox has been flatlined since yesterday, it isn’t your deck. The whole Mikrosoft-365 grid got zeroed.
November 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
So ... where to connect?

LLMs are rather great. Keep in mind was a weird kid with much time in libraries in 1970s. Read 1980s journals, NetNews & Google. Guessed ahead.

In 1980s guessed neural networks might yield useful result, if not sure as to how. Where now?
November 1, 2026 at 2:46 AM
今回のPHPによるシステム緊急メンテナンス祭り、JUNET記念日的に何かの記念日に祭り上げらたりするのだろうかw? なお、私がNetNews(fj)に触れた頃には、「この日はニュースの配送に感謝する日(機材、メンテナンスする人々)」ではあっても、投稿を控えることはもう無かったな。

JUNET記念日(JUNET)
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUNET#J...
JUNET - Wikipedia
ja.wikipedia.org
October 22, 2026 at 8:25 AM
FediverseとNetNewsの両方につながってるSNSいってみるか
October 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
@fuka Webが普及する以前はNetnewsとIRCで…(インターネットに直接入ったのでいわゆるパソコン通信はやってない、けれど仮運用時代のASCII-NETは知っていたりする…(友人がやってた))
October 10, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Usenet was all WORDS, & words are where ALL the magic happens! :-) Found love of various sorts on ox.* local netnews, uk.misc, and (surprisingly) uk.people.support.depression (which you might think would be dismal, but was full of lovely intense people & very dark humour). Life has fewer words now.
October 3, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Share an image that shows how many years you’ve been online

(I can’t find any images of the Unix NetNews reader that I used to browse Usenet back in the day)
Share an image that shows how many years you’ve been online
September 23, 2026 at 12:37 PM
あとゴミたちの言動が2ちゃんねるどころかNetnewsの雑魚たちとまったく同じで、やっぱりゴミって進化しないんだなーと思うなど。
Twitter(自称X) で「戦争反対」と言っただけで自分の人生に絶望したゴミが大量に涌いてきた。まあ相手にせず片っ端からブロックしているけど、引用リプもカットできるBlueskyの優秀性が証明された感じ。
September 5, 2026 at 1:04 AM
NetNewsの議論ではないけど、IMGタグを提案するメーリングリストへの投稿を見つけた。

1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/ww...
September 4, 2026 at 8:26 AM
I’ve heard the UTZOO archive is one of the most complete for the really early stuff, but it all appears to be in some format I don’t recognize, and doesn’t really cover the boards I’m personally interested in.

shiftleft.com/mirrors/utzo...
Mirror of the old UTZOO UseNet archive
Mirror of Henry Spencer's UTZoo NetNews Archive from roughly 1981 to 1991.
shiftleft.com
September 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
It's been a great session. Thanks to Dr. Burnett Gallman for sharing his deep knowledge of ancient Afrika, and to our students for their faithful attendance and thoughtful questions.
Modjeska Simkins School wraps two-month Afrikan history series | NetNews
www.scpronet.com
August 31, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Ich liebe selbst gehostete Feeds mit FreshRSS. Aber… jetzt werde sogar ich schwach. Herzlich willkommen: Nextnews App Minimal Schnell Für selbst gehostete Feeds via NextCloud/News Gerade interessant für User die kein eigenes NAS nutzen Lassen wir

https://happybuddha1975.de/apptipp-netnews/
August 25, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Me too! One of my favorite was Usenet/Netnews in the 90's. An example was while Babylon 5 was a thing, the creator (J.M. Straczynski) would check in daily, listen to feedback, and help us understand what was going on with the plot. So awesome to talk directly to "The Great Maker."
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Just reminiscing with an old work friend about Netnews (or Usenet) 'Back in the day.' So much time wasted at work. It was a wonderful place to explore, learn, and be entertained.
January 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
. @mazzo 私は2chをはじめとした匿名掲示板が日本を残念にしたと考えているので、岡田氏の発言はもっともだなと思いましたよ :-) netnewsのように所属を明らかにした発言が主流になれば良かったのに。
May 22, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I am very confused by people still writing netnews clients in the year 2025 when this was a solved problem in 1992. (And in fact I'm still using the same newsreader I used in college in 1992.)
April 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
On my new (recycled) grossly overpowered netnews server, innreport finishes in less than 60 seconds. I don't recall how long it used to take, but I bet being able to hold the entire server state, spool included, in RAM helps performance a lot. Pity there's so little traffic.
April 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
When I built this netnews server I'm retiring, in the Before Times, I gave it two 2T spinners and reserved 1T of that for the news spool. Now I'm trying to get the data off, and I'm finding that the whole server is only 30G of data. Lots of tiny files but not much data. (It never carried binaries.)
April 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I still use Usenet daily but I very much miss the Usenet of my youth. Never mind that I was demonstrably worse off in every respect, in the 1990s I could spend hours a day reading netnews, using a tool that actually does threading right (unlike any social media platform or email app).
December 17, 2024 at 7:44 PM