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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". -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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. |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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. |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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. |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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? -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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. [Xpost & Fup2 set to alt.free.newsservers] |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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. -- His sig says: "Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you!" -- Man-wai, 'Remamin silent' souds good. How 'bout it? You keep stump for a century or two? |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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? -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Is there any proof that Usenet is still international?
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. -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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