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  • Re: groups today, How does one (used to) set up peering with googlegrou

    From John Levine@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 23 22:56:22 2024
    According to Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>:
    If it wasn't for the archive, they might as well turn off posting to
    their own groups/lists, as it seems they haven't got any users left.

    Only part of groups peered with usenet. There are plenty of live
    groups that are private discussion lists. I'm on a few of them.

    I'm not surprised that the ex-usenet groups are dead. Anyone who
    cared has moved somewhere else that still peers.

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to John Levine on Sat Feb 24 08:36:06 2024
    John Levine wrote:

    Only part of groups peered with usenet. There are plenty of live
    groups that are private discussion lists. I'm on a few of them.

    I'm not surprised that the ex-usenet groups are dead. Anyone who
    cared has moved somewhere else that still peers.

    I've never used the non-usenet parts of googlegroups, I see hundreds of thousands of "groups" by searching for names containing a single letter
    "a" or "t", yet 99% of them say no new traffic in last 30 days, some
    have never had any messages ...

    For some usenet groups there are people who compile monthly/yearly stats
    of prolific posters, until recently over half the users in some groups
    were via googlegroups.

    I found googlegroups unbearable to use for sending, I would only do so
    if I wanted to reply to an ancient message that had aged-out from my thunderbird ...

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