To be effective with usenet, you need to pick a news reader and learn it. News readers are not low learning curves. Newsgroups live in hierarchies. Every sub-level under a hierarchy entry is separated by a period. An example would be comp.lang.c now that's two hierarchies comp and lang and the c newsgroup lives under lang. On Wed, 13 Jul 2022, Linux for blind general discussion wrote: > I can't speak to the whole newsgroup thing myself, as I never figured out how > exactly it was supposed to work. I do understand email and the web however, so > these are my go-to resources when looking for information of any kind. The > email list is probably the best option, as I just subscribe to the lists I > want, and I see everything posted to the list. If I don't want to read a > thread, i.e. if it's not a topic of interest to me, my email program allows me > to delete the whole thread from my mailbox at the press of a single key, > leaving everyone else's copies untouched. Those lists that store archives are > especially good, since just like a web forum, I have the option of searching > through previous postings, even those I have deleted, in case something came > up that I need to find again. Usually a simple Searx will give me the answer > from the archive, so I don't even have to try to find the archive website for > each list. As I understand it, newsgroups are not archived on the web, and > from what I could understand of their functionality, seem to be pretty much > walled off from the rest of the internet, making usenet rather useless to me > personally, unless I'm totally wrong about how it works. > > ~Kyle > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list