Re: Looking for a better recommendation for people who want to make use of comp.lang.tcl

Larry W. Virden wrote:
In the past, recommending people use Dejanews and then Google news
provided an ability to read the group to the individual developer or
user who did not have the financial resources to pay for access to a
usenet site, nor enough computing resources to host a usenet feed of
their own.

However, in the past few weeks, Google has begun a fundamental change
in the way the group reading software works. In the old interface,
they have removed the ability to display specific "favorite threads"
and to determine when they were updated. They also removed the
advanced searching functionality, making finding information more
difficult.

If you have not yet seen the intended new version of interface to the
groups, it becomes worse. The software indicates that the only way to
"track" changes to a discussion is to have emails sent to you when a
new posting occurs in a thread. This would really flood one's email
box with a lot of discussions - if the feature actually worked. As it
turns out, it doesn't work as advertised right now, so there really is
no way to determine updates to threads of interest.

I've submitted feedback to google concerning a variety of their
changes. I don't expect, however, that they are going to be dissuaded
from proceeding just because the interface is nearly unusable now.

So the alternatives is to continue to use whatever interface they
provide and suffer with it, or find a new way to read the groups.

I know that I do not have a strong desire to build and maintain a
client specificallly designed to interact with an nntp server, even if
I knew where one was.

However, I hate to lose access to the most enjoyable community with
which I have worked. I have not found a mailing list or web forum that
is even 1/10th as busy,helpful, and knowledgable as comp.lang.tcl .

So, what are some options that we might begin advocating over on
http://wiki.tcl.tk/ ?

eternal-September.org offers port 80 service, which gets around most
port-based filters. There are a plethora of COTS nntp readers which
are absolutely free.

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Les Cargill


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