On Fri, 2 Jul 2021, Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:

> Jay, welcome to the list and thanks for representing the old school :)
> Scheme.org is meant to serve people of all technical preferences.

Lassi, thanks!

>
>> I do not use Google's version of Usenet, because I do not agree to
>> have Google snoop on me.
>>
>> I use Usenet most days that I use the Internet.  I do not know much
>> about how Usenet works.  I admit that more people know how to use
>> Firefox than know how to use nn.
>
> As a News veteran, can you help us newbies figure out:
>
> - How to create a useful NNTP URL (<a href="news:...something here...">) for
> comp.lang.scheme. I skimmed the RFC for that URI scheme, and it seems to say
> that we should always give a particular news server. Is that really so?
>
> - Which web-based readers to offer? We now link to Google and Narkive. For
> fairness, we could offer some more. Are any of these generally known to have
> better user interface, or less spying, etc. than others?
>
> - Which News tutorial to link to, in case newbies want to learn about news?
> Currently we just link to Wikipedia.

I must be away from any Internet terminal today.  Heaven forwarding I
will respond within a few days.

ad questions: Ah, yes, I use nn.  I use nn because I have a shell
account at the best ISP, Panix (Public Access Networks Corporation).
And so I just type "nn" at the shell prompt, press return, and nn
starts up.

ad the discovery/invention/re-invention of computers in the Twentieth Century: Once

   http://olduse.net

offered a thirty year displaced live feed of Usenet, transported over
http.  As all know, Alan Turing's great discovery is that any
sufficiently advanced transport protocol is indistinguishable from any
other transport protocol, up to a small matter of programming.  So
Usenet over http does, as you point out, exist.

free advertising: Martin Davis has a book on the history of protocols^Wcomputers,

   The Universal Computer
   The Road from Leibniz to Turing, Third Edition

   https://www.routledge.com/The-Universal-Computer-The-Road-from-Leibniz-to-Turing-Third-Edition/Davis/p/book/9781138502086

oo--JS.