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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?



 
 
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Old September 29th 17, 06:18 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.english.usage
Mr. Man-wai Chang
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Default Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?

On 30/9/2017 12:52 AM, Krzysztof Mitko wrote:

Because it wasn’t that international as you might remember. Apart from the
language barrier, back in the days most servers (at least in Poland) only
carried national hierarchies, no big 8, and had IP range limits for users.
Also the connectivity to Western Europe and the US was so bad most people
never visited their servers anyway. I’d say usenet only got more
international.


And the language barrier? Back then, Usenet is basically in English. And
Unicode was not yet "invented".

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Old September 30th 17, 07:34 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Loren Pechtel[_2_]
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 02:32:05 -0000 (UTC), John Doe
wrote:

Since communist China prohibits such things, like YouTube,
Twitter, and Facebook, it might seem otherwise to you.

Besides Americans, there are plenty of Europeans posting
here.


A few years back I was able to access Usenet from China. I haven't
tried since. I'm a US poster.
  #23  
Old September 30th 17, 08:27 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
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On 9/24/2017 10:34 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Many ISPs have already killed their Usenet service and servers! So how
could you be sure that Usenet is still that Usenet?


As long as NNTP protocol is still used, it'd still be Usenet when most of
its newsgroups and messages are the same as the other Usenet servers.

Are we only accessing a local Usenet within our country of residence?


We'd access the local **copy** of the Usenent.

AFAIK, Usenet reside in all Usenet servers - wherever they may be in the
world. They synchronize with each other.
  #24  
Old October 2nd 17, 12:57 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.english.usage
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On 1/10/2017 7:48 AM, Neodome Admin wrote:

There are still some groups that were created to exchange messages in other
languages before invention of Unicode. User, however, is forced to use only
two languages at the same time, one of which is English (because all
codepages contain English alphabet).


Big5 Chinese character set was widely used and is still being used. So
was Japanese character set. They are multi-byte characters, not Unicode.

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Old October 2nd 17, 03:56 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
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Op 24-09-17 om 19:34 schreef Mr. Man-wai Chang:

Many ISPs have already killed their Usenet service and servers! So how
could you be sure that Usenet is still that Usenet?

Are we only accessing a local Usenet within our country of residence?

It works fine on the two servers my ISP runs, news.xs4all.nl for
text-only and newszilla.xs4all.nl for binaries.

For years newszilla was open via IPv6 but that testing phase is over and
now you need an account.
  #26  
Old October 2nd 17, 04:53 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
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On 2/10/2017 10:56 PM, Dirk T. Verbeek wrote:

It works fine on the two servers my ISP runs, news.xs4all.nl for
text-only and newszilla.xs4all.nl for binaries.

For years newszilla was open via IPv6 but that testing phase is over and
now you need an account.


If IPV6 was the future to come, this generation of free, open IPV4 NNTP
news servers would migrate with ease... unless some politics tried to
stop this from happening?

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Old November 11th 17, 02:33 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.english.usage
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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 1/10/2017 7:48 AM, Neodome Admin wrote:

There are still some groups that were created to exchange messages in other
languages before invention of Unicode. User, however, is forced to use only
two languages at the same time, one of which is English (because all
codepages contain English alphabet).


Big5 Chinese character set was widely used and is still being used. So
was Japanese character set. They are multi-byte characters, not Unicode.


Not to forget KOI8-R for russian USENET.


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  #28  
Old November 15th 17, 10:10 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
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On 24/09/2017 21:47, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
Are we only accessing a local Usenet within our country of residence?


I don't live in Hong Kong.

Neither does Man-wai. The big looney lives in a world of his own.

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Man-wai, 'Remamin silent' souds good. How 'bout it? You keep stump for a
century or two?
  #29  
Old November 16th 17, 02:10 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
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On 16/11/2017 5:10 AM, Jenny Telia wrote:

Neither does Man-wai. The big looney lives in a world of his own.


When would my world be destroyed?

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Old November 16th 17, 02:12 PM posted to alt.free.newsservers,alt.conspiracy,alt.comp.freeware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.os.linux.ubuntu
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On 15/11/2017 11:41 PM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:

I poast worldwide, chink boi.


You still didn't prove it. How many international *civilians* are still
writing in Usenet now and then? Are they all government agents, hunting
for any forms of dissidents? I would not be surprised about that.

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