usenet reading

[memilanuk]

On Friday, May 25, 2012 3:38:55 PM UTC-7, Jon Clements wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Normally use Google Groups but it's becoming absolutely frustrating - not only has the interface changed to be frankly impractical, the posts are somewhat random of what appears, is posted and whatnot. (Ironically posted from GG)
> 
> Is there a server out there where I can get my news groups? I use to be with an ISP that hosted usenet servers, but alas, it's no longer around...
> 
> Only really interested in Python groups and C++.
> 
> Any advice appreciated,
> 
> Jon.

Have you tried news.gmane.org?

They have a Mail2News gateway for many popular mailing lists, as well as some of the traditional usenet hierarchy - including this group.

Here is a link to their page for this group, to give you an idea of what kind of reading options they provide.  

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general

Or you can point your usenet reader @ news.gmane.org and subscribe 'normally'.

HTH,

Monte