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Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. |
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. I'm curious as to which drug dealers are so dumb they think the demographic on usenet would be the slightest bit interested in their wares. They'd be far better off spamming snapchat or tiktok in some way. |
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. I'm curious as to which drug dealers are so dumb they think the demographic on usenet would be the slightest bit interested in their wares. They'd be far better off spamming snapchat or tiktok in some way. I'm pretty sure their automated scripts simply target the few groups that still have much traffic. They probably pay little attention to its subject, though I notice that a few did seem to acknowledge that it was a uk group. That's obviously something that might be automated, too. We don't know, of course, how many of them actually have drugs to sell, or if they're just after the punters' money. They might just be the successors of the Nigerian princes with a fortune to share. |
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Certes wrote:
On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct 2020, remarked: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. I'm curious as to which drug dealers are so dumb they think the demographic on usenet would be the slightest bit interested in their wares. They'd be far better off spamming snapchat or tiktok in some way. What's going on here is that the people purporting to sell the drugs (let's assume for now they aren't actually trying to propagate drive-by-malware) are sold a package of 'places/people we'll spam for you' by a broker. It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by asking them to desist from spamming Usenet. Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users. From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists. Yes, that's probably about it. I don't suppose they ever tried to track how many orders they got via this channel (almost certainly zero). |
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Certes wrote: On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by asking them to desist from spamming Usenet. Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users. From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists. Can only be a good thing long term. I suspect the only people who access this group via google is the spammers. |
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 01:56:55 +0100 Certes wrote: On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by asking them to desist from spamming Usenet. Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users. From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists. Can only be a good thing long term. I suspect the only people who access this group via google is the spammers. No, there were legitimate users as well — hence this thread on uk.transprt. One person who may or may not be missed is Marcus Potter. He kept telling us how computer literate he was, so I wonder if he'll find a way back? |
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:20:50 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote: wrote: On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 01:56:55 +0100 Certes wrote: On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by asking them to desist from spamming Usenet. Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users. From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists. Can only be a good thing long term. I suspect the only people who access this group via google is the spammers. No, there were legitimate users as well — hence this thread on uk.transprt. One person who may or may not be missed is Marcus Potter. He kept telling us how computer literate he was, so I wonder if he'll find a way back? If his idea of computer literacy is just using a web browser then probably not. But while aioe.org is still free to use there's no excuse for people with a bit of IT nous not being on usenet. |
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On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct 2020, remarked: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. I'm curious as to which drug dealers are so dumb they think the demographic on usenet would be the slightest bit interested in their wares. They'd be far better off spamming snapchat or tiktok in some way. What's going on here is that the people purporting to sell the drugs (let's assume for now they aren't actually trying to propagate drive-by-malware) are sold a package of 'places/people we'll spam for you' by a broker. It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by asking them to desist from spamming Usenet. Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users. From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists. Interestingly I’ve seen one Ketamine etc ad since the cut off, ostensibly injected into Usenet from XSUsenet.com with no sign of Google in the Path: header or elsewhere. I don’t know who XSUsenet are and I’m not sure I want to poke too hard. Sam -- The entity formerly known as Spit the dummy to reply |
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On 12/10/2020 10:07, Sam Wilson wrote:
Certes wrote: On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct 2020, remarked: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. I'm curious as to which drug dealers are so dumb they think the demographic on usenet would be the slightest bit interested in their wares. They'd be far better off spamming snapchat or tiktok in some way. What's going on here is that the people purporting to sell the drugs (let's assume for now they aren't actually trying to propagate drive-by-malware) are sold a package of 'places/people we'll spam for you' by a broker. It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by asking them to desist from spamming Usenet. Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users. From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists. Interestingly I’ve seen one Ketamine etc ad since the cut off, ostensibly injected into Usenet from XSUsenet.com with no sign of Google in the Path: header or elsewhere. I don’t know who XSUsenet are and I’m not sure I want to poke too hard. Sam Much of the drug etc spam on Usenet seems to arrive via Google so it would be best if they drop all Usenet groups. Usenet was designed to use with clients and there are still plenty of free PC ones. I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. |
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On 12/10/2020 15:36, MikeS wrote:
On 12/10/2020 10:07, Sam Wilson wrote: Certes wrote: On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct 2020, remarked: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. I'm curious as to which drug dealers are so dumb they think the demographic on usenet would be the slightest bit interested in their wares. They'd be far better off spamming snapchat or tiktok in some way. What's going on here is that the people purporting to sell the drugs (let's assume for now they aren't actually trying to propagate drive-by-malware) are sold a package of 'places/people we'll spam for you' by a broker. It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by asking them to desist from spamming Usenet. Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users. Â*From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists. Interestingly I’ve seen one Ketamine etc ad since the cut off, ostensibly injected into Usenet from XSUsenet.com with no sign of Google in the Path: header or elsewhere. I don’t know who XSUsenet are and I’m not sure I want to poke too hard. Sam Much of the drug etc spam on Usenet seems to arrive via Google so it would be best if they drop all Usenet groups. Usenet was designed to use with clients and there are still plenty of free PC ones. I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. Google Groups was as easy to search as any other website. Usenet isn't. |
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2020, MikeS remarked: I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. It's the archive search which is most important. -- Roland Perry |
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Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 15:36:04 on Mon, 12 Oct 2020, MikeS remarked: I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. It's the archive search which is most important. If it leads to the end of "But 5 years ago you wrote this...","Yes but 7 years ago you stated...." type threads that go on forever it can only be a good thing. |
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In message , at 15:36:04 on Mon, 12 Oct 2020, MikeS remarked: I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. It's the archive search which is most important. Yes. I'd be happy if GG still actively hosted the group on a read-only, searchable basis. We don't need posts from GG, but it would be nice if GG users could read posts from elsewhere. |
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:50:39 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote: In message , at 15:36:04 on Mon, 12 Oct 2020, MikeS remarked: I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. It's the archive search which is most important. Which they broke many years ago. |
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On 12/10/2020 16:50, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 15:36:04 on Mon, 12 Oct 2020, MikeS remarked: I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. It's the archive search which is most important. TBH I cannot say I have ever wanted to search old Usenet posts but those of you suffering withdrawal symptoms might like to take a look here http://www.harley.com/usenet/usenet-...nzb-files.html For anyone really desperate there is also the expensive Giganews archive. |
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astmail.co.uk writes big snip I don’t know who XSUsenet are and I’m not sure I want to poke too hard. XSUsenet.com is a news-reader (or do I mean "client"?) which (a) is free and (b) carries binary groups like alt.binaries.pictures.rail. -- Bill Borland |
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On 2020-10-12, Bill Borland wrote:
In article , Sam Wilson astmail.co.uk writes big snip I don’t know who XSUsenet are and I’m not sure I want to poke too hard. XSUsenet.com is a news-reader (or do I mean "client"?) which (a) is free and (b) carries binary groups like alt.binaries.pictures.rail. XSUsenet is not a news-reader (or any other sort of client), it is a provider, which is why it can "carry" a binary group if it feels like it. There is a free account type, but you can't post through it. I have no direct experience, but it seems to live in the same market niche as Giganews. I have a suspicion that any usenet provider with paid accounts, binary groups, and a VPN product is making most of its money from those who want binary groups which are not at all like alt.binaries.pictures.rail . Eric -- ms fnd in a lbry |
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. My sense of history is that Usenet predated the Internet. |
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On 13/10/2020 18:47, Scott wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. My sense of history is that Usenet predated the Internet. ITYM Usenet predated the World Wide Web -- Graeme Wall This account not read. |
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On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:47:56 +0100, Scott
wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. My sense of history is that Usenet predated the Internet. Sort of. It predates public access to the Internet, but the Internet's antecendants go back a lot further than that. And the term "Internet" was in use (albeit as only one protocol of what was then still ARPANET) as early as the 1970s. Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) was first documented in 1981, in RFC 791, which is slightly earlier than the first documentation of Usenet in RFC 850 (in 1983). Although, of course, Usenet, in a form that we would recognise as such, was in early use before that. It's probably more true to say that the Internet and Usenet originally evolved separately, but converged in the early 1980s. RFC 850 explicitly states that Usenet messages should be formatted as valid ARPANET mail messages, even if not transmitted via ARPANET. Mark |
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Graeme Wall wrote:
On 13/10/2020 18:47, Scott wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC), Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. My sense of history is that Usenet predated the Internet. ITYM Usenet predated the World Wide Web Yes, I was accessing usenet before the Web, more than 25 years ago. In the early days of the Web, of course, there wasn't much available, and it was hard to find. No one search engine could find everything, so I had a group search utility that fired off searches on half a dozen different engines, then aggregated and ranked their results. All via dial-up, of course. It made each search a project in its own right |
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Graeme Wall wrote: My sense of history is that Usenet predated the Internet. ITYM Usenet predated the World Wide Web Both, really. In its first decade, Usenet traffic mostly went over dial-up phone connections using uucp. I think I still have the Telebit modem card I got because it had special coding to make uucp data transfer faster. I unsoldered the UART chip and installed a socket for a better one that made it easier or my 386 Unix box to keep up. We had gateways to the Internet but in that era there weren't a lot of usenet sites on the Internet. That changed around the time the Web appeared. -- Regards, John Levine, , Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly |
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MikeS wrote:
On 12/10/2020 10:07, Sam Wilson wrote: Certes wrote: On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct 2020, remarked: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC) Recliner wrote: Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was able to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers. Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of time. The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable keyword and baysean filtering. Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread. I'm curious as to which drug dealers are so dumb they think the demographic on usenet would be the slightest bit interested in their wares. They'd be far better off spamming snapchat or tiktok in some way. What's going on here is that the people purporting to sell the drugs (let's assume for now they aren't actually trying to propagate drive-by-malware) are sold a package of 'places/people we'll spam for you' by a broker. It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by asking them to desist from spamming Usenet. Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users. From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists. Interestingly I’ve seen one Ketamine etc ad since the cut off, ostensibly injected into Usenet from XSUsenet.com with no sign of Google in the Path: header or elsewhere. I don’t know who XSUsenet are and I’m not sure I want to poke too hard. Sam Much of the drug etc spam on Usenet seems to arrive via Google so it would be best if they drop all Usenet groups. Usenet was designed to use with clients and there are still plenty of free PC ones. I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. Google have what was the DejaNews archive, painstakingly created at the time from several people's own private archives of early Usenet posts. It'd be rather a shame to lose that. Anna Noyd-Dryver |
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:50:39 +0100 Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 15:36:04 on Mon, 12 Oct 2020, MikeS remarked: I cannot understand why anyone in this thread is lamenting the loss of access from Google Groups except perhaps the dearth of free Usenet clients to use on a phone. It's the archive search which is most important. If it leads to the end of "But 5 years ago you wrote this...","Yes but 7 years ago you stated...." type threads that go on forever it can only be a good thing. It rarely does; however it can be useful to find some obscure fact or quote posted a decade ago. Anna Noyd-Dryver |
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On 30/10/2020 03:03, Anna Noyd-Dryver wrote:
Google have what was the DejaNews archive, painstakingly created at the time from several people's own private archives of early Usenet posts. It'd be rather a shame to lose that. I wonder if any of the web archive sites such as archive.org would be interested in expanding their remit. A problem is that they might have to become selective to avoid storing copyrighted or obscene content but omitting binaries should solve most of that (and save much space). |
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