Re: Bogus Usenet outside USA ... China? Hong Kong? 1997?
"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <[email protected]>
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On 6/23/2026 8:16 AM, KenitoBenito wrote:
>
> At one time people in China could access some, maybe all, of
> Usenet. There were three regulars in alt.friends who posted from
> China. Since nothing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would have
> viewed as subversive was ever posted, from anyone, there wasn't
> anything for them to fear from that.
I can still see 3 "hongkong" newsgroups in Usenet. I think huge trunk of
Hong Kong newsgroups was removed because of serious spams (or was it
1997?). I can't quite remmeber.
> This was around 20 years ago. I have no idea what access, if any,
> is available now.
Hong Kong ISPs used to carry Usenet newsgroups, sync with USA. Among
them was the NNTP server of HKUST under the name Supernet. There were
also Fidonet gateways (in the form of Echomail) that bridged with Usenet.
Gradually, all Usenet servers were dropped as the Web got more and more
popular.
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