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  • Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions

    From Indira@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 23 10:24:50 2024
    https://groups.google.com/g/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
    Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions.
    Historical content remains viewable.

    An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique
    URL will need to be located that allows people to search before posting to
    the m.p.w.g. newsgroup & which allows unique references to recent articles.
    --
    You can probably safely remove your Google Groups filters now.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to Indira on Fri Feb 23 00:02:46 2024
    Indira <indira@ghandi.net> wrote:
    (and also multi-posted to other newsgroups)

    https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.freeware
    Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.

    Yay! This was known to occur a couple months ago.

    An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique URL will need to be located that allows people to search before they post
    to the a.c.f. newsgroup and which allows unique references to recent posts.

    Nope, not needed. One, use the search in your own NNTP client. How
    much you can search depends on the retention of your NNTP client. Two,
    modus operandi is no one bothers to search any newsgroup before posting.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Indira@21:1/5 to VanguardLH on Sat Feb 24 01:53:24 2024
    VanguardLH wrote:

    Nope, not needed. One, use the search in your own NNTP client. How
    much you can search depends on the retention of your NNTP client. Two,
    modus operandi is no one bothers to search any newsgroup before posting.

    While you're almost certainly aware of <http://al.howardknight.net/>
    there are other ways to construct a URL based on the Message-ID.

    http://news.chmurka.net/mid.php?mid=ur8tvu$2kvca$1@paganini.bofh.team http://usenet.ovh/index.php?article=ual&msgid=ur8tvu$2kvca$1@paganini.bofh.team

    Still... there was merit in having a Usenet-only keyword search engine that
    was provided by dejanews (which Google took over) and which was available
    to everyone with just a web browser, and which only searched Usenet and
    which cost nothing which allowed the user to read the entire thread - not
    just one post like Howard Knight does - and which allowed users to
    reference the post to others who also had only a web browser,
    etc).

    If you want to search before you post, then there will probably be new
    engines that come up, although none with the retention that Google had.

    It has always been the case that the worst posters to Usenet were
    never ones who searched before they posted anything, and for those
    people, there was never (and will never) be a utility to a search engine.

    For example
    http://microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.narkive.com

    But that web site by David Cavion is no longer maintained once he got a full-time job and now has no time to maintain it.

    The Usenet-only replacement search engine needs to be free to all, with
    just a browser, not needing an account, and having infinite retention.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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