I know this is off topic but I think there may be people here in the know and I've come up blank everywhere else I've tried.
Back in the day there was a thriving community on uk.telecom* newsgroups but unless I'm missing something that has all gone. Does anyone know where such people can be found these days? Public forums, mailing lists, etc?
Admin: feel free to delete if you'd rather I didn't ask here,
Mark
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 10:06:39AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Back in the day there was a thriving community on uk.telecom* newsgroups but unless I'm missing something that has all gone. Does anyone know where such people can be found these days? Public forums, mailing lists, etc?
uknof?
Adam
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 07:47, Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
uknof?
I'd never heard of it before now so thanks for that, I'll take a look at their mailing list.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 10:06:39AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
I know this is off topic but I think there may be people here in the know and I've come up blank everywhere else I've tried.
Back in the day there was a thriving community on uk.telecom* newsgroups but unless I'm missing something that has all gone. Does anyone know where such people can be found these days? Public forums, mailing lists, etc?
I still frequent the following Usenet groups:-
uk.telecom.broadband uk.telecom.mobile uk.telecom.voip uk.telecom
There's a reasonable amount of traffic in all these groups still, e.g. since yesterday there's 1 message in broadband and 5 in mobile. It's just about all genuine too, very little junk.
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 10:54, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I still frequent the following Usenet groups:-
uk.telecom.broadband uk.telecom.mobile uk.telecom.voip uk.telecom
Interesting, which NNTP server are you using? My attempts at finding active uk.telecome* newsgroups wasn't successful.
Or maybe I just didn't set up my client p[roperly, it's been a while since I used usenet!
On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 12:32:19PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 10:54, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I still frequent the following Usenet groups:-
uk.telecom.broadband uk.telecom.mobile uk.telecom.voip uk.telecomInteresting, which NNTP server are you using? My attempts at finding active uk.telecome* newsgroups wasn't successful.
I use News.Individual.NET and news.eternal-september.org (second as a backup really).
Or maybe I just didn't set up my client p[roperly, it's been a while since I used usenet!
Maybe your 'last read' has somehow got into the future?
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 14:15, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I use News.Individual.NET
.. there's a blast from the past! Although when I go to their site now it says you need to be German national to use their services?
and news.eternal-september.org (second as a backup really).
That's a new one on me but seems to work, thanks!
Maybe your 'last read' has somehow got into the future?
I think it's just me. I'm remembering a decade (plus!) ago where the sort of traffic there is now would imply that the group was dead, so I didn't look as hard as I should have done. Some things don't change though, even recognise a few "faces".
Thanks for the help.
On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 12:05 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
it says you need to be German national to use their services?
Really? I've just had a quick look at the signup pages and I can't see that. I only let my account lapse a couple of months ago, as well. First time I've now been on Usenet since the early 80's :(
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 12:49, Huge huge@huge.org.uk wrote:
Really? I've just had a quick look at the signup pages and I can't see that. I only let my account lapse a couple of months ago, as well. First time I've now been on Usenet since the early 80's :(
https://news.individual.net/register/step1.php
"Due to changes in European tax law coming into force on 01.01.2015, we can only offer our service to users which have their tax domicile in Germany. "
Have to say I don't understand why EU tax law would require this.
On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 12:55 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 12:49, Huge huge@huge.org.uk wrote:
Really? I've just had a quick look at the signup pages and I can't see that. I only let my account lapse a couple of months ago, as well. First time I've now been on Usenet since the early 80's :(
https://news.individual.net/register/step1.php
"Due to changes in European tax law coming into force on 01.01.2015, we can only offer our service to users which have their tax domicile in Germany. "
Oh, yeah, ta.
Have to say I don't understand why EU tax law would require this.
AFAIK, they've been ignoring that for years. Like I said, my account only expired (at my choice) in April this year, and most of the people I know who were on Usenet were using NIN.
IIRC, it was something to do with VAT.
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 14:19, Huge huge@huge.org.uk wrote:
AFAIK, they've been ignoring that for years. Like I said, my account only expired (at my choice) in April this year, and most of the people I know who were on Usenet were using NIN.
Fair enough.
I'm sure I've has a NN account in the past but I mostly used Demon's NNTP servers whilst I was a customer there and haven't used Usenet so much since then.
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:05:54PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 14:15, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
I use News.Individual.NET
.. there's a blast from the past! Although when I go to their site now it says you need to be German national to use their services?
I think that's their free services, anyone can pay and use them still.
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