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Gemini Usenet Newsgroup

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Fri Oct 8 18:50:04 BST 2021

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:39:03 +0200, Jason Evans wrote:

If anyone is interested, I can start putting together a proposal for a

Gemini Usenet newsgroup. comp.infosystems.gopher is still around and

active. A new comp.infosystems.gemini could be created in the classic

Usenet Big-8 hierarchies but we need people who are willing to say that

they would use it before it could be created.

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system established in 1980.

Thanks to Jason and others, there is an official announcement to discuss (and soon vote for or against if I understand correctly) the creation of the newsgroup specifically for Gemini.

As there is no central server in Usenet users have to choose one to connect to the network. Currently free and simple access seems to be the service offered by AIOE, also a nonprofit project: https://news.aioe.org

Various Usenet clients are available, Thunderbird being a popular choice. Simply add an Other/Newsgroup Account via Thunderbird's Account Actions dialog. Then find some interesting groups to subscribe to via Manage newsgroup subscriptions. For testing one's account testgroups in the group hierarchy local to the chosen server are available, e.g. aioe.test

The creation of the Gemini newsgroup was recently topic in the following groups:

news.groupsnews.announce.newgroupsnews.groups.proposals

Further interesting groups might be under comp.infosystems.* of course.

Personally I like the decentral concept of Usenet and enjoy that subscribing to groups does not fill my personal email inbox.

Thanks for reading.

-- https://www.big-8.org lists clients and servers to choose from under "About Usenet".