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0 pointsdagw2y ago0 comments

Sendmail seems to be a weird state of limbo. On the one hand their homepage still lists Usenet as the place to go for support and questions. On the other hand their latest release is from June of the year.

I get the feeling that are maybe 5 huge sendmail users still out there somewhere that still pay for support contracts and that is just about enough to pay for someone to turn out regular updates. But beyond that they have reconciled themselves with the fact that they are never getting any new users.

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woleium2y ago· 1 in thread

Usenet never went anywhere. There's very little spam, no banner advertising, and a plethora of greybeards. You should try it :))

dagwOP2y ago

Usenet never went anywhere...You should try it :))

I virtually lived on Usenet between roughly 1996-2006 and hung around a bit for a couple more years after that. I can assure you that Usenet definitely went somewhere. Even by 2005 Usenet felt pretty deserted by everybody other than the warez scene.

I will concede however that I haven't logged onto an NNTP server for probably a decade, so perhaps Usenet has had a resurgence without anyone telling me.

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