On 4/5/25 11:14 AM, Hugh Hood wrote:

After being with Earthlink for 27 years, I was notified that they
finally discontinued their free access to the usenet newsgroups as part
of their subscription fee.

So, based on the suggestions I saw here, I signed up for a free text-
only account on eternal-september.org.ÿ (Although they do accept
donations).

So, if anyone here is in the same position as was I, it's something to consider trying.

I have been disappointed by the lack of messages here lately from our wonderful collection of Apple II stalwards, but even on the 'cool kids' Apple II sites these days (and the myriad of sub-sites / groups) there
are a lot of things that don't really appeal to me. YMMV, of course.

comp.sys.apple2 -- May the King live long.ÿ :-)

Hugh Hood

I'm in similar boat. I was using Google Groups to access mainly one
group (alt GS Warriors - NBA group). When Google killed Usenet access,
I signed up for Eternal September. It's been working fine. BUT I'm not
on my personal laptop as much as I used to be. I'm usually on my work
laptop and phone so my Usenet posting has been sproadic.

Similar to you, I dropped into the NBA group and there's still a few
people around. comp.sys.apple2 seems a little dead though. Lots of
people have migrated to a FB Apple II group from what I see

DL


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Hi,

BUT I'm not
on my personal laptop as much as I used to be. I'm usually on my work laptop and phone so my Usenet posting has been sproadic.

I'd like to point out that there are great News apps for mobile phones. I'm writing these lines on my iPhone.

Oliver



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On 1/25/2026 3:27 AM, Donald Lee wrote:

Similar to you, I dropped into the NBA group and there's still a few
people around. comp.sys.apple2 seems a little dead though. Lots of
people have migrated to a FB Apple II group from what I see

DL

Although I've never had a FB account, I do peruse the Apple II Enthusiasts group from time-to-time using my wife's account; she's threatened to stop feeding me if I ever post or comment on it, and so I don't. ;-)

While there is much activity there, I find a lot of it lacks the 'meat and potatoes' that we used to find here.

At the suggestion of Joshua Bell (of A2 Desktop revival fame), I went and signed up for a Slack account and find there is quite a bit of activity on the myriad of Apple II channels. Many of those posters are quite knowledgeable, too.

Again, I'd prefer everything be on comp.sys.apple2, but then again, I'm a dinosaur. And we know what happened to them.




Hugh Hood


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Donald Lee <coach41@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/5/25 11:14 AM, Hugh Hood wrote:

After being with Earthlink for 27 years, I was notified that they
finally discontinued their free access to the usenet newsgroups as part
of their subscription fee.

So, based on the suggestions I saw here, I signed up for a free text-
only account on eternal-september.org.? (Although they do accept donations).

So, if anyone here is in the same position as was I, it's something to consider trying.

I have been disappointed by the lack of messages here lately from our wonderful collection of Apple II stalwards, but even on the 'cool kids' Apple II sites these days (and the myriad of sub-sites / groups) there
are a lot of things that don't really appeal to me. YMMV, of course.

comp.sys.apple2 -- May the King live long.? :-)

Hugh Hood

I'm in similar boat. I was using Google Groups to access mainly one
group (alt GS Warriors - NBA group). When Google killed Usenet access,
I signed up for Eternal September. It's been working fine. BUT I'm not
on my personal laptop as much as I used to be. I'm usually on my work laptop and phone so my Usenet posting has been sproadic.

Similar to you, I dropped into the NBA group and there's still a few
people around. comp.sys.apple2 seems a little dead though. Lots of
people have migrated to a FB Apple II group from what I see

http://old.reddit.com/r/apple2 is active!
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Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc@web.de> wrote:

Hi,

BUT I'm not
on my personal laptop as much as I used to be. I'm usually on my work
laptop and phone so my Usenet posting has been sproadic.

I'd like to point out that there are great News apps for mobile phones. I'm writing these lines on my iPhone.

Oliver

Agreed?I use my iPhone almost exclusively to read and post to newsgroups,
using NewsTap. The only issue is that it sometimes reports errors
receiving articles (without further explanation), but recovers and
continues.
--
-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://michaeljmahon.com

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Thank you Hugh,

I'll try to post here more often.

comp.sys.apple2 -- the Emperor has no clothes :)

Usenet

https://comp.sys.apple2.narkive.com/ https://www.rocksolidbbs.com/computers/thread.php?group=comp.sys.apple2 https://newsgrouper.org/comp.sys.apple2
https://macgui.com/usenet/

Forums

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple2/
https://www.applefritter.com/tracker https://forums.atariage.com/forum/158-apple-ii-computers/ https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?forums/apple-i-lisa.27/ https://apple2infinitum.slack.com/


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Hugh,

Again, I'd prefer everything be on comp.sys.apple2, but then again, I'm a dinosaur. And we know what happened to them.

I think many people consider us all to be dinosaurs, though unlike our ancestors, we are still here, just...

Of course most of the dinosaurs seemed to have died in the Badlands of North Dakota, as well as the Jurassic Coast here in the UK...

Ewen


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Oliver Schmidt wrote:
Hi,

BUT I'm not
on my personal laptop as much as I used to be. I'm usually on my work
laptop and phone so my Usenet posting has been sproadic.

I'd like to point out that there are great News apps for mobile phones. I'm writing these lines on my iPhone.

Oliver

I've lurked here for eons.

When Google dropped news groups I tried a bunch of alternatives. I landed on jlaforums.com which has a ton of the newsgroups available. It does sometimes screw up links posted in messages.

This post is a test to see if it works on my phone. It didn't work the other day.

I peek at FB every now and then but I find the long unorganized stream difficult to follow. Forget about finding old posts.

I now have a shortcut setup on my phone to open a new group of websites that includes ][ related sites including fritter, a2central, atariage forums, callapple, jlaforums, and yes top of FB group. Retroroundup is another nice way to catch a lot of content.

What other sites do you frequent for new II?

I do miss seeing posts about new ideas and questions on here. It's the last vestige of BBS life and you can find answers to so many things. I see familiar names on 6502.org, fritter forums and atariage.

I may venture to slack one of these days.


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joltenjoe wrote:

Oliver Schmidt wrote:
Hi,

BUT I'm not
on my personal laptop as much as I used to be. I'm usually on my work
laptop and phone so my Usenet posting has been sproadic.

I'd like to point out that there are great News apps for mobile phones. I'm >> writing these lines on my iPhone.

Oliver

I've lurked here for eons.

When Google dropped news groups I tried a bunch of alternatives. I landed on jlaforums.com which has a ton of the newsgroups available. It does sometimes screw up links posted in messages.

This post is a test to see if it works on my phone. It didn't work the other day.

I peek at FB every now and then but I find the long unorganized stream difficult to follow. Forget about finding old posts.

I now have a shortcut setup on my phone to open a new group of websites that includes ][ related sites including fritter, a2central, atariage forums, callapple, jlaforums, and yes top of FB group. Retroroundup is another nice way to catch a lot of content.

What other sites do you frequent for new II?

I do miss seeing posts about new ideas and questions on here. It's the last vestige of BBS life and you can find answers to so many things. I see familiar names on 6502.org, fritter forums and atariage.

I may venture to slack one of these days.

If you have any problem with the links posted in messages - just use the report button on that post and the admin usually can fix it pretty quickly.

Hope this helps.


This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=686897757#686897757

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