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Check out Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC ("Panix"). They run their own news server, know about moderated newsgroups, host several newsgroup moderation teams, and have reasona…

"As for clients, on mobile there's nothing available for android last I've checked." There's PhoNews, but it wasn't very good the last time I tried the free version. It ran slowly,…

One significant obstacle to a widespread return to Usenet is that the Internet has grown up, and has to behave more like the larger world around it. It's no longer a genteel, acade…

It will take more than a weekend. This reminds me of that old joke about X-Windows: "X Protocol is extensible!" "So is a bucket of molten pig-iron." There is definitely a lot of "i…

It's worse than that. They won't even take action against harassment of moderators, including their users that repeatedly submit obviously rejectable articles to moderated newsgrou…

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Sample .newsrc file for recommended newsgroups: alt.computer.workshop: alt.culture.usenet: alt.fan.usenet: alt.folklore.computers: alt.obituaries: alt.os.linux.slackware: alt.priva…