On 16 Feb 2024 01:37:48 -0000,
kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
In article <2584a58d1114fae57ab199e5db6ba817@dizum.com>, D <J@M> wrote: >>google groups users may not realize the fundamental differences between
the autonomous/decentralized usenet, versus the proprietary/centralized >>alphabet/google corporation; the isolation of google groups from usenet >>provides incentive for multitudes of google's users to seek free usenet >>news servers, apps, and websites, that will help them to stay connected
Google has worked very hard with their interface to deliberately obscure >these differences and make it seem like Usenet is a proprietary Google >service. So, many of us have been attempting to educate Google users for the >past two decades about what Usenet really is. If they haven't got it by
now, they likely won't.
--scott
the bible explains how to build an ark, but gopher wood might've been
some laboratory grown material 30,000 years ago for all anyone knows?
seriously though, a flood of sorts could swamp the usenet in the wake
of google's disjuncture . . . and google users are the world's number
one experts at exceedingly pernicious inundation of usenet newsgroups
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