Usenet (NNTP)

[OdinZA]

Hi

My first post and by no means last. Currently evaluating a job offer and am looking for some information on internet speeds/usage.

Questions:

1. If you download off usenet, what speeds do you get
2. Which usenet provider are you using
3. Which Singapore internet provider are you using

Thanks

[ecureilx]

Hi

My first post and by no means last. Currently evaluating a job offer and am looking for some information on internet speeds/usage.

Questions:

1. If you download off usenet, what speeds do you get
2. Which usenet provider are you using
3. Which Singapore internet provider are you using

Thanks

errr what has the job got to do with evaluating ??

And who the heck uses Newsnet now ?? ?:(

Don't tell me an agent just threw the questions at you to check you ..

[OdinZA]

Sorry, the comment about jobs has nothing to do with usenet.

I'm old and still use usenet!

[ecureilx]

Sorry, the comment about jobs has nothing to do with usenet.

I'm old and still use usenet!

And what's the objective of these questions, if I may ask ??

[OdinZA]

I currently use usenet a lot and given my potential move to singapore, I would like to establish what change to my usage patterns this would mean.

[JR8]

And what is it you 'download' off Usenet?

Funny I thought it was just text bulletin boards/chat groups.

Your questions make no sense to me.

Get ready for the old tick-tock

[sundaymorningstaple]

Maybe our friend is employed by Symantec Cloud Security?

[JR8]

Who knows.... says he's old, but profile says he's a gamer.

Most people these days wouldn't even know what Usenet is. Yet he signs up here to ask questions that could be answered better by simply googling.

dunno, but my fishyometer clock tick=tocked

[durain]

usenet used to be text based and can access it via dial up for old timer. these days, youth use it to download porn and illegal stuff.

[JR8]

Oh issit! Yah I was an ol' timer that used it for pre-forum chat...


So the OP is into porn and stuff yah?

[OdinZA]

And what is it you 'download' off Usenet?

Funny I thought it was just text bulletin boards/chat groups.

Your questions make no sense to me.

Get ready for the old tick-tock

What is the old "tick-tock" ?

and no, I don't work for Symatec

For obvious reasons, I don't game as much as I used to.

as for what I use usenet for, its irrelevant and I have been a gamer for about 28 years

I have been using the internet when it was all about gopher and the closest thing to facebook was the finger command.

I take it that none of you use usenet and google does not tell me much about real world usenet availability from singapore.

If anyone can point me to a more technical singapore forum, that would be appreciated.

BTW...I'm too old for pr0n

[sundaymorningstaple]

DAMN! Sumbody older'n me! It's about time!

[ecureilx]

If anyone can point me to a more technical singapore forum, that would be appreciated.

BTW...I'm too old for pr0n

Well, those things did exist in Singapore, but with lesser and lesser people using they all took the message and left.

I still remember the BBS days ..

Not sure if there are any forums, but, the kids nowadays don't want to know the old stuff and anyway, anybody with a 2 hour training progresses to be an internet expert ..so why bother with old crap ??

PS: where are you from, if I may ask ?? Just curious ..

[JR8]

If anyone can point me to a more technical singapore forum, that would be appreciated.

BTW...I'm too old for pr0n

Well, those things did exist in Singapore, but with lesser and lesser people using they all took the message and left.

I still remember the BBS days ..

Not sure if there are any forums, but, the kids nowadays don't want to know the old stuff and anyway, anybody with a 2 hour training progresses to be an internet expert ..so why bother with old crap ??

PS: where are you from, if I may ask ?? Just curious ..

And see here, for nostalgics, the lumbering beast of the 1st text-based SG forum still lumbers on. What was Usenet, now taken over by Google as part of 'Google Groups'.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.cult ... art=0&sa=N

[x9200]

as for what I use usenet for, its irrelevant and I have been a gamer for about 28 years

It is relevant esp. if you, as you said further do not use it for a porn There are other binary groups of course but if this is not about them then again your question is weird judging from your declared experience.
FYI I use my private nntp server-client (leafnode) to fetch some local, European groups directly from the servers in Europe. You should have no problems whatsoever finding such servers around the world and fetching whatever you want unless you are interested in some traffic thick binary groups. I would not even bother to look for a local nntp server.