What role does Google Groups play? It seems to me to just be a place
where UseNet stuff gets archived. Is it anything more than that?
Yes. My company has about a dozen private Google Groups. They are VERY useful, nay essential to our business.
On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 8:39:34 PM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
by now most of yous heard
Google Groups will shut down for good...
Well, it was fun while it lasted (I started posting to Usenet in 1985).
--
Jan
On 12/17/2023 12:08 PM, JanPB wrote:
On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 8:39:34 PM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote: >>> by now most of yous heard
Google Groups will shut down for good...
Well, it was fun while it lasted (I started posting to Usenet in 1985).
--
Jan
Why do you say that? There are many newsreaders and NNTP servers in
existence for you to use. Since you were posting in 1985, long before
there was any such a thing as Google Groups (or even Google), you know
this.
On 12/15/23 6:12 PM, Mike Fontenot wrote:
What role does Google Groups play? It seems to me to just be a place
where UseNet stuff gets archived. Is it anything more than that?
Yes. My company has about a dozen private Google Groups. They are VERY useful, nay essential to our business.
On Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 12:28:37?PM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
Volney wrote:
On 12/17/2023 12:08 PM, JanPB wrote:
On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 8:39:34?PM UTC-8, The Starmaker wrote:
by now most of yous heard
Google Groups will shut down for good...
Well, it was fun while it lasted (I started posting to Usenet in 1985).
--
Jan
Why do you say that? There are many newsreaders and NNTP servers in existence for you to use. Since you were posting in 1985, long before there was any such a thing as Google Groups (or even Google), you know this.Jan is loosing it...
Jan thinks GoogleGroups is the King of Newsgroups servers. The King is dead.
You completely misunderstood what I wrote.
BTW, back then I used readnews and then rn (a major improvement!).
There was no spam and no idiots. The good old days.
Tom Roberts <tjoberts137@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
My company has about a dozen private Google Groups. They are VERY
useful, nay essential to our business.
No real problem, just set up your own NNTP server.
Why trust Google with anything at all?
In sci.physics Eddie Pitel Belotelov <eeti@ddiiield.ii> wrote:
Jim Pennino wrote:
In sci.physics Lonnie Lohno <llno@loonehln.ni> wrote:
Jim Pennino wrote:
it had, a search on deja was a search on usenet already. Plus
interface for read and post. Also, in 1985 he must have been using >>>>>> Commodore with magnetic tapes. No usenet, no www etc. You guys are >>>>>> making shit up like manure of a cow.
Before the late 80's USENET was distributed vi UUCP over phone lines. >>>>> Most of the USENET nodes were mainframes of one sort or another and
you had to associated with government, academia, or government
contracting to get access.
yes, but it was directly to a BBS, then going to something called
𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁. I doubt it was in 1985.
Garbled nonsense.
The basic structure of how articles pass from server to server and to
clients has not changed, only the underlying physical transfer has
changed from modems over phone lines to direct TCP/IP connections.
this imbecile doesn't know what fidonet is and how BBS and the wire
telephone works. You fucking imbecile. You are wasting our time.
Yet another Dunning–Kruger moron posting from an invalid domain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet
FYI FidoNet is little used these days outside of Russia and former
republics of the USSR.
On 12/18/23 4:10 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
Tom Roberts <tjoberts137@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
My company has about a dozen private Google Groups. They are VERY
useful, nay essential to our business.
No real problem, just set up your own NNTP server.
Why would I bother do that???? Google Groups will continue to support
all of our groups. We have received no notice that this support will be ending.
Why trust Google with anything at all?
Because they provide our email and other services.
Tom Roberts <tjoberts137@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On 12/18/23 4:10 AM, J. J. Lodder wrote:
Tom Roberts <tjoberts137@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
My company has about a dozen private Google Groups. They are VERY
useful, nay essential to our business.
No real problem, just set up your own NNTP server.
Why would I bother do that???? Google Groups will continue to support
all of our groups. We have received no notice that this support will be
ending.
You are an optimist.
If they were essential to my business I would want to have full control.
Why trust Google with anything at all?
Because they provide our email and other services.
Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst,
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