Which Newsgroups Should a Sysop Subscribe?

[SugarBug]

I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid information overload.

[Ivo Gandolfo]

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid information overload.

news.admin.technical (moderated)
news.software.nntp
news.admin.peering
alt.sysadmin.recovery
alt.sysadmin.bofh
some other's (just monitor)

[Retro Guy]

Post by Ivo Gandolfo

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid information overload.

news.admin.technical (moderated)
news.software.nntp
news.admin.peering
alt.sysadmin.recovery
alt.sysadmin.bofh
some other's (just monitor)

I would add:

news.admin.net-abuse.usenet

[The Doctor]

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments.
Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to?
Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of
the pulse and I would like to avoid information overload.
--

Peers and usenet abuse groups!

[candycanearter07]

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid information overload.

Slightly different, but news.lists.filters is good for nocems.

[Marco Moock]

Post by candycanearter07

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP
developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay
subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want
to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid information
overload.

Slightly different, but news.lists.filters is good for nocems.

At least when human read that groups, that will be an information
overload. :-)
Except for that, there are not much messages in the news.* hierarchy,
so subscribing top all should be ok.

[Adding Salt To The Wound]

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid information overload.

None. You don't need to use Newsgroups to stay current unless you want
to be current with nonsense going on in these newsgroups. The best way
is to use common sense and and Google is the best way to keep up-to-date
with new things happening in the IT world. Newsgroups are for trolling
and scoring points against each other and people with any sound brain
should stay away from them.

There are no developments in "Usenet and NNTP". Nobody is working on
anything new. It is dull and outdated.

[D]

Post by Adding Salt To The Wound

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments. Which
are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to? Most important?
Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like
to avoid information overload.

Google is the best way to keep up-to-date

"Who's the most important man this country ever knew?
Who's the man our presidents tell all their troubles to?
No, it isn't Mr. Bryan and it isn't Mr. Hughes;
I'm mighty proud that I'm allowed a chance to introduce:

Barney Google - with the goo, goo, googly eyes,
Barney Google - bet his horse would win the prize;
When the horses ran that day,
Spark Plug ran the other way!
Barney Google - with the goo-goo-googly eyes!

Who's the greatest lover that this country ever knew?
Who's the man that Valentino takes his hat off to?
No, it isn't Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies rave about;
When he arrives, who makes the wives chase all their husbands out?

Barney Google - with the goo-goo-googly eyes,
Barney Google - had a wife three times his size;
She sued Barney for divorce,
Now he's sleeping with his horse!
Barney Google - with the goo-goo-googly eyes!

--song by Billy Rose and Con Conrad
(c)1923 Jerome H Remick & Co., New York, Detroit
by permission of DeBeck, creator of 'Barney Google'
King Features Syndicate, Inc. "Great Britain Rights Reserved"

[rek2 hispagatos]

Post by Adding Salt To The Wound

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful? I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid information overload.

None. You don't need to use Newsgroups to stay current unless you want
to be current with nonsense going on in these newsgroups. The best way
is to use common sense and and Google is the best way to keep up-to-date
with new things happening in the IT world. Newsgroups are for trolling
and scoring points against each other and people with any sound brain
should stay away from them.
There are no developments in "Usenet and NNTP". Nobody is working on
anything new. It is dull and outdated.

This is not true, and very vage old way of seen things,
at least there has been 4 new nodes in the last 12 months that carry
only text, I am working on a usenet rust client and I know someone else
estarted to add nntp/usenet capability to their new email client.
In our particular node we are getting around 10-20 new users every
month, true they usually just post on our hispagatos.* root but
also contribute to some alt.* etc.
There has been new groups added and some old removed.

we FINALLY have google leave us alone, usenet now is better than
in the last 10 years.
choose a node that has only plain text groups and are active
with spam and bs.

I take usenet anytime over any centralized, and data mining corporate
social networks on the http protocol, only the fediverse has my
claps, specially mastodon.

Happy Hacking
ReK2

[Marco Moock]

Post by rek2 hispagatos

Post by Adding Salt To The Wound

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP
developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should
stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful?
I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid
information overload.

None. You don't need to use Newsgroups to stay current unless you
want to be current with nonsense going on in these newsgroups. The
best way is to use common sense and and Google is the best way to
keep up-to-date with new things happening in the IT world.
Newsgroups are for trolling and scoring points against each other
and people with any sound brain should stay away from them.
There are no developments in "Usenet and NNTP". Nobody is working
on anything new. It is dull and outdated.

This is not true, and very vage old way of seen things,
at least there has been 4 new nodes in the last 12 months that carry
only text, I am working on a usenet rust client and I know someone
else estarted to add nntp/usenet capability to their new email client.

Which nodes are you talking about?

Post by rek2 hispagatos
In our particular node we are getting around 10-20 new users every
month, true they usually just post on our hispagatos.* root but
also contribute to some alt.* etc.

That sounds good.

Post by rek2 hispagatos
I take usenet anytime over any centralized, and data mining corporate
social networks on the http protocol, only the fediverse has my
claps, specially mastodon.

I've joined that too, but the amount of bullshit is incredible - almost
the same as on Twitter.
It also doesn't offer a good discussion platform because it doesn't
have real threads.

[rek2 hispagatos]

Post by Marco Moock
the same as on Twitter.
It also doesn't offer a good discussion platform because it doesn't
have real threads.

True, you will prob like more lemmy is the response of the free internet
to reddit https://join-lemmy.org/

I agree with mastodon, we use it for anouncements and chit chat
but anything usefull just gets losts, so lemmy much better
and honestly usenet much better ;)

[candycanearter07]

Post by Marco Moock

Post by rek2 hispagatos

Post by Adding Salt To The Wound

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP
developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should
stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful?
I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid
information overload.

None. You don't need to use Newsgroups to stay current unless you
want to be current with nonsense going on in these newsgroups. The
best way is to use common sense and and Google is the best way to
keep up-to-date with new things happening in the IT world.
Newsgroups are for trolling and scoring points against each other
and people with any sound brain should stay away from them.
There are no developments in "Usenet and NNTP". Nobody is working
on anything new. It is dull and outdated.

This is not true, and very vage old way of seen things,
at least there has been 4 new nodes in the last 12 months that carry
only text, I am working on a usenet rust client and I know someone
else estarted to add nntp/usenet capability to their new email client.

Which nodes are you talking about?

Post by rek2 hispagatos
In our particular node we are getting around 10-20 new users every
month, true they usually just post on our hispagatos.* root but
also contribute to some alt.* etc.

That sounds good.

Post by rek2 hispagatos
I take usenet anytime over any centralized, and data mining corporate
social networks on the http protocol, only the fediverse has my
claps, specially mastodon.

I've joined that too, but the amount of bullshit is incredible - almost
the same as on Twitter.
It also doesn't offer a good discussion platform because it doesn't
have real threads.

Yeah, mastadon isn't great IMO.

[The Doctor]

Post by candycanearter07

Post by Marco Moock

Post by rek2 hispagatos

Post by Adding Salt To The Wound

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP
developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should
stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful?
I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid
information overload.

None. You don't need to use Newsgroups to stay current unless you
want to be current with nonsense going on in these newsgroups. The
best way is to use common sense and and Google is the best way to
keep up-to-date with new things happening in the IT world.
Newsgroups are for trolling and scoring points against each other
and people with any sound brain should stay away from them.
There are no developments in "Usenet and NNTP". Nobody is working
on anything new. It is dull and outdated.

This is not true, and very vage old way of seen things,
at least there has been 4 new nodes in the last 12 months that carry
only text, I am working on a usenet rust client and I know someone
else estarted to add nntp/usenet capability to their new email client.

Which nodes are you talking about?

Post by rek2 hispagatos
In our particular node we are getting around 10-20 new users every
month, true they usually just post on our hispagatos.* root but
also contribute to some alt.* etc.

That sounds good.

Post by rek2 hispagatos
I take usenet anytime over any centralized, and data mining corporate
social networks on the http protocol, only the fediverse has my
claps, specially mastodon.

I've joined that too, but the amount of bullshit is incredible - almost
the same as on Twitter.
It also doesn't offer a good discussion platform because it doesn't
have real threads.

Yeah, mastadon isn't great IMO.

Administration ther is questionable.

Post by candycanearter07
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user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

[candycanearter07]

Post by The Doctor

Post by candycanearter07

Post by Marco Moock

Post by rek2 hispagatos

Post by Adding Salt To The Wound

Post by SugarBug
I want to be sure I am staying current on Usenet and NNTP
developments. Which are the newsgroups that NNTP sysops should
stay subscribed to? Most important? Least important? Most useful?
I want to keep track of the pulse and I would like to avoid
information overload.

None. You don't need to use Newsgroups to stay current unless you
want to be current with nonsense going on in these newsgroups. The
best way is to use common sense and and Google is the best way to
keep up-to-date with new things happening in the IT world.
Newsgroups are for trolling and scoring points against each other
and people with any sound brain should stay away from them.
There are no developments in "Usenet and NNTP". Nobody is working
on anything new. It is dull and outdated.

This is not true, and very vage old way of seen things,
at least there has been 4 new nodes in the last 12 months that carry
only text, I am working on a usenet rust client and I know someone
else estarted to add nntp/usenet capability to their new email client.

Which nodes are you talking about?

Post by rek2 hispagatos
In our particular node we are getting around 10-20 new users every
month, true they usually just post on our hispagatos.* root but
also contribute to some alt.* etc.

That sounds good.

Post by rek2 hispagatos
I take usenet anytime over any centralized, and data mining corporate
social networks on the http protocol, only the fediverse has my
claps, specially mastodon.

I've joined that too, but the amount of bullshit is incredible - almost
the same as on Twitter.
It also doesn't offer a good discussion platform because it doesn't
have real threads.

Yeah, mastadon isn't great IMO.

Administration ther is questionable.

*there


I'll be honest, I just think the Twitter style of social media isn't for
me. I do have a bluesky acct, but I just post artwork there.

[Marco Moock]

Post by The Doctor

Post by candycanearter07
Yeah, mastadon isn't great IMO.

Administration ther is questionable.

Isn't that "every server operator does what he wants"?

[The Doctor]

Post by Marco Moock

Post by The Doctor

Post by candycanearter07
Yeah, mastadon isn't great IMO.

Administration ther is questionable.

Isn't that "every server operator does what he wants"?

I had to swith to ubuntu to FreeBSD .

Why?

The documentation is out of date in Mastodon

that FreeBSD port is better maintained.

Post by Marco Moock
--
kind regards
Marco

[rek2 hispagatos]

Post by The Doctor

Post by Marco Moock

Post by The Doctor

Post by candycanearter07
Yeah, mastadon isn't great IMO.

Administration ther is questionable.

Isn't that "every server operator does what he wants"?

I had to swith to ubuntu to FreeBSD .
Why?
The documentation is out of date in Mastodon
that FreeBSD port is better maintained.

Post by Marco Moock
--
kind regards
Marco

I believe you, we run a mastodon node for years now hispagatos.space
and instead of using the Arch GNU/Linux "packages" I used and been using
the source code, I just git fetch to the release version and do the
compile. This way I never had an issue.


Happy Hacking
ReK2

[The Doctor]

Post by rek2 hispagatos

Post by The Doctor

Post by Marco Moock

Post by The Doctor

Post by candycanearter07
Yeah, mastadon isn't great IMO.

Administration ther is questionable.

Isn't that "every server operator does what he wants"?

I had to swith to ubuntu to FreeBSD .
Why?
The documentation is out of date in Mastodon
that FreeBSD port is better maintained.

Post by Marco Moock
--
kind regards
Marco

I believe you, we run a mastodon node for years now hispagatos.space
and instead of using the Arch GNU/Linux "packages" I used and been using
the source code, I just git fetch to the release version and do the
compile. This way I never had an issue.

To each their own choice!

Post by rek2 hispagatos
Happy Hacking
ReK2
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