[GNC] email seems so crude 30 years after MULTICS forums.

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 8 Oct 2021 00:08:02 -0700 Stan Brown <the_stan_brown at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 2021-10-07 16:39, Jack Frillman via gnucash-user wrote:
> > 
> >> Of course there's Usenet, which doesn't require everyone to connect to
> > 
> > Usenet is still active?
> > I though it died years ago.
> 
> No, Google did its best to destroy it in favor of Google Groups. most
> formerly active newsgroups are moribund, but some are still quite
> active: misc.taxes.moderated, for instance.
> 
> Most ISPs gradually cut back their Usenet support and eventually
> terminated it -- without lowering their price for the loss of amenity,
> as another poster noted. There are a number of independent free or
> fee-based Usenet servers. I use news.individual.net at 10 euros a year;
> it carries every text-based newsgroup, if I am not mistaken.

There is also GigiNews (US$4.99/month).

> 
> New groups still appear occasionally, for instance Thunderbird and
> Firefox peer support groups after Mozilla decommissioned its own captive
> newsgroups. Anyone could start a GnuCash group, but I wouldn't do it
> without some level of consensus in the mailing list.)
> 

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