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PSA for Usenet users - rz - 07-03-2025
If you don't peruse Usenet, you can ignore this post.
For those of you who may not check Usenet frequently, about a month ago one of the larger Usenet providers started re-posting a crap-ton of stuff from about 2009/2010 timeframe. Groups that had been mostly dead for years all of the sudden had a bunch of stuff in them. It's still going on. Someone in one of the groups I download from tracked down which provider it was (I don't remember which one, but it doesn't matter). Most Usenet trackers only go back a couple of years, so if you weren't active back in 2009 or 2010, you may not have seen some of this stuff. I've pretty much been a regular Usenet user since 1998 (originally started in 1983), so I've already seen this stuff. However, some of my musical tastes have changed, so I'm finding a few things here and there to download. One note though... not everything is 100% there. Not only are parts missing on some files, entire files are missing. It's been frustrating to download an "album" but it's missing a few tracks. I'm having about an 80% success rate on the stuff I've tried. Happy hunting.
RE: PSA for Usenet users - special - 07-04-2025
I never used usenet to download stuff like this, only for the discussion forums. I was part of several mac, photography and other groups. those are all gone.
RE: PSA for Usenet users - Speedy - 07-04-2025
(07-04-2025, 12:37 AM)special Wrote: I never used usenet to download stuff like this, only for the discussion forums. I was part of several mac, photography and other groups. those are all gone.
Yep, I was a frequent usenet reader, too, but it seems Reddit has supplanted it.