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		marcus_holmes on Feb 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned Last time I used an actual usenet group must have been around 2000 or so. I have no idea how I'd set up NNTP and get to a group now. Not that it wouldn't take me long to work it out, but I'd have to start from first principles.

u801e on Feb 13, 2021 [–]

I was regularly posting to several groups as late as 2014.

But setting up access is no different than configuring a mail client.

shadowgovt on Feb 14, 2021 | | [–]

Configuring a mail client exceeds the technical comfort of most web users.

hackmiester on Feb 14, 2021 | | [–]

I haven’t manually configured a mail client in well over 10 years.

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