On 9 August 2017 at 15:02, Nico Williams <n...@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 03:48:34PM -0600, Keith Medcalf wrote:
>> There is a solution since about 1984 ... it is called NNTP (Usenet
>> News).  Google Groups is basically Usenet News with a (so some people
>> thing -- but not I -- I detest so-called web-forums) purty front end
>> to the news reader.  Gateways between mailman, bitnet, usenet, and a
>> bunch of other stuff existed for a long time (and still do, mostly).
>
> I... would like to use NNTP, but I'd need someone to provide the
> service.  Though I'd be annoyed at having to use two different UAs (I
> use mutt primarily; it doesn't support NNTP).
>

Here's a usenet provider:
https://www.eternal-september.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

I think mutt can be patched to support nntp.
I've used slrn and it's pretty straight forward to use, but I
understand the switch clients issue.
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