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  • you dont have to pay. you can get an account on google groups or eternal september or one of the other very few remaining text only servers but you get what you pay for. poor interface (google groups) or various account or posting restrictions. no binary groups, etc… for a couple of bucks, you can get better service quality, high message retention, faster speeds etc. it costs significant money to run these servers now with all the bandwidth and hard drives.


  • Here is a good list of active groups, i am sure there are more. of course plenty of binary groups are active to. if one you like isnt that active, why not try to revive it?

    alt.culture.usenet:
    alt.fan.usenet:
    alt.obituaries:
    alt.privacy:
    alt.tv.simpsons:
    ba.broadcast:
    comp.ai:
    comp.arch:
    comp.compilers:
    comp.dcom.telecom:
    comp.infosystems.gemini:
    comp.infosystems.gopher:
    comp.lang.c++:
    comp.lang.c:
    comp.lang.forth:
    comp.lang.misc:
    comp.lang.python.announce:
    comp.lang.python:
    comp.lang.raspberry-pi:
    comp.lang.tcl:
    comp.misc:
    comp.mobile.android:
    comp.mobile.misc:
    comp.os.cpm:
    comp.os.linux.announce:
    comp.os.linux.misc:
    comp.risks:
    comp.sys.apple2:
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action:
    comp.text.tex:
    comp.unix.shell:
    gnu.emacs.help:
    misc.legal.moderated:
    misc.taxes.moderated:
    news.admin.moderation:
    news.announce.important:
    news.announce.newgroups:
    news.groups.proposals:
    news.groups:
    news.software.readers:
    rec.arts.drwho:
    rec.arts.movies.current-films:
    rec.arts.sf.tv:
    rec.arts.sf.written:
    rec.autos.sport.f1:
    rec.aviation.soaring:
    rec.bicycles.tech:
    rec.food.cooking:
    rec.games.backgammon:
    rec.music.beatles:
    rec.music.classical.recordings:
    rec.radio.amateur.antenna:
    rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors:
    rec.radio.amateur.equipment:
    rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:
    rec.radio.amateur.misc:
    rec.radio.amateur.moderated:
    rec.radio.amateur.policy:
    rec.radio.amateur.space:
    rec.radio.info:
    rec.radio.shortwave:
    rec.sport.rowing:
    rec.woodworking:
    sci.astro:
    sci.electronics.design:
    sci.electronics.repair:
    sci.logic:
    sci.physics.relativity:
    sci.physics.research:
    talk.origins:
    uk.comp.sys.mac:
    uk.radio.amateur.moderated:
    uk.rec.sheds:
    uk.sci.weather:
    











  • Know someone to get on or know someone to talk back and forth with? I mean, you could use google groups interface which is awful but still sort of an on ramp to it (and free). Plenty of usenet services out there though. you could pay a buck or two to blocknews.net for a few gigs and now you have “premium” access. discussion groups will take a long time to eat up 5 gigs. the real problem is sorting through to find the active groups not to mention finding decent nntp newsreader software for your platform. actually someone just posted a few days back in alt.fan.usenet some decently active discussion groups. got to start somewhere i suppose.

    alt.culture.usenet:
    alt.fan.usenet:
    alt.obituaries:
    alt.privacy:
    alt.tv.simpsons:
    ba.broadcast:
    comp.ai:
    comp.arch:
    comp.compilers:
    comp.dcom.telecom:
    comp.infosystems.gemini:
    comp.infosystems.gopher:
    comp.lang.c++:
    comp.lang.c:
    comp.lang.forth:
    comp.lang.misc:
    comp.lang.python.announce:
    comp.lang.python:
    comp.lang.raspberry-pi:
    comp.lang.tcl:
    comp.misc:
    comp.mobile.android:
    comp.mobile.misc:
    comp.os.cpm:
    comp.os.linux.announce:
    comp.os.linux.misc:
    comp.risks:
    comp.sys.apple2:
    comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action:
    comp.text.tex:
    comp.unix.shell:
    gnu.emacs.help:
    misc.legal.moderated:
    misc.taxes.moderated:
    news.admin.moderation:
    news.announce.important:
    news.announce.newgroups:
    news.groups.proposals:
    news.groups:
    news.software.readers:
    rec.arts.drwho:
    rec.arts.movies.current-films:
    rec.arts.sf.tv:
    rec.arts.sf.written:
    rec.autos.sport.f1:
    rec.aviation.soaring:
    rec.bicycles.tech:
    rec.food.cooking:
    rec.games.backgammon:
    rec.music.beatles:
    rec.music.classical.recordings:
    rec.radio.amateur.antenna:
    rec.radio.amateur.boatanchors:
    rec.radio.amateur.equipment:
    rec.radio.amateur.homebrew:
    rec.radio.amateur.misc:
    rec.radio.amateur.moderated:
    rec.radio.amateur.policy:
    rec.radio.amateur.space:
    rec.radio.info:
    rec.radio.shortwave:
    rec.sport.rowing:
    rec.woodworking:
    sci.astro:
    sci.electronics.design:
    sci.electronics.repair:
    sci.logic:
    sci.physics.relativity:
    sci.physics.research:
    talk.origins:
    uk.comp.sys.mac:
    uk.radio.amateur.moderated:
    uk.rec.sheds:
    uk.sci.weather: