• Re: google groups final usenet article?

    From Louis Epstein@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 28 18:39:35 2024
    D <J@m> wrote:

    using 40tude dialog > edit > find a message-id > from server (servers
    added to settings > servers, identities, signatures... > newsservers), preliminary results indicate that this article could be google's last:

    Message-ID: <7e2a356c-8313-45c1-a12c-44bd4f0ba39cn@googlegroups.com> >>Subject: <thai spam>
    Newsgroups: microsoft.public.security.virus
    Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 07:08:15 -0800 (PST)
    Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:08:15 +0000

    22 february 2024 03:08:15 pm ut (000w00:00,00n00:00; jd 2460363.13073)
    22 february 2024 10:08:15 am et (074w00:11,40n44:29; jd 2460363.13073)
    22 february 2024 07:08:15 am pt (122w05:02,37n25:18; jd 2460363.13073)

    pending further updates, it appears that google shut down their usenet gateway shortly after 7 a.m. googleplex time thursday 22 february 2024



    Meanwhile,Google Maps still widely distributes its address database
    that specifies that I am in a particular part of a neighboring town
    seven miles down the road.

    -=-=-
    The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
    at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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