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Gemini Usenet Newsgroup

Alan gemini at bunburya.eu

Mon Sep 27 16:38:21 BST 2021

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I haven't used Usenet before but if there was an easy and costless way to use it (as there appears to be, based on the tutorial you linked) then I would certainly try it as an alternative to the mailing list. My initial thought was that there is no real reason to move away from the mailing list but it would actually be convenient to separate these discussions from my other emails (this is the only mailing list I use).

I suspect we would need to keep the mailing list and mirror it to Usenet though, as having Usenet as the only means of accessing community discussions would raise the barrier to entry to quite a high level IMO.

On 27/09/2021 10:39, Jason Evans wrote:

Hi all,

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.

Full disclosure: I am a member of the Usenet Big-8 Management Board

which creates and manages the Big-8 Usenet Hierarchies. see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_8_(Usenet) and https://big-8.org and

we are looking to create groups for people who want to use Usenet. We're

not for profit and we don't make any money except enough to cover expenses.

Jason