Newsgroup
Filed under: Hmmm
I know you don’t need like SDSL internet for newsgroups, but it probably wouldn’t hurt for anything else. I am a big fan of more bandwidth is better. So I would go for whatever you can get in your area. I would love to have fiber, but it is not available here. (I am sure I have complained, ok, whined about that before). I bring up the newsgroups because I am currently thinking about seeing if there are any still around. I was a bit worried about it as when I put newsgroups in and did a search online I found a lot of people complaining about their downfall. I thought that would be great, especially after I finally got around to being interested in them. (Yes, that was sarcasm).
I think blogs and twitter may be cutting into the user base of news groups, but there are still several news readers available and charging so I am going to assume that there are probably still several good newsgroups still active and out there. I hope so as I want to see what they are like. There are a few subjects I am interested in and I was curious to see if newsgroups would be interesting as or even more interesting than blogs and forums. There are a lot of different news sites out there, like broadband news and cnet’s news, that cater to technology information and I am sure there are lots of other sites specific to whatever subject you want, but as I understand it those types of sites are different than newsgroups. Blogs and forums are close but not the same, from what I have heard. I still want to check them out and see what they might have to offer. Hopefully there are still lots of people who use them.
Tags: Internet, newsgroups, NNTP, SDSL