Ion Saliu wrote:

“Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support
new Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and
new content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and
searching of historical data will still be supported as it is done
today.”

Au revoir les enfants!
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSPWn6IsnDM
• https://moviesjoy.is/movie/au-revoir-les-enfants-11531

Usenet service... FREE

www.eternal-september.org

Newsreader... FREE

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/


If any Google Groups user needs help transitioning [NO, not that!] to
Usenet the way it was meant to be, I will do my best to solve any
issues that they have - as I'm sure others will too - and if I don't
know the answer to something, I will point them in the direction of somebody/somewhere that does.

It's not the end of the world!

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Ion Saliu wrote:

We are not dead — Usenet is. Google decided to kill Usenet for all
intents and purposes.

Google Groups was not Usenet. It was Google's portal to Usenet. But
Usenet existed outside of Google. So Google can not kill something
that they don't control. Google Groups will still exist just for
Google's groups. Usenet will still exist for people to talk about
soccer, computers, cars (etc.)... and download music, films and porn!
Trust me, Usenet is going nowhere.

The beauty of Google Groups (GG) was
PERSISTENCE. The messages were ARCHIVED — i.e., saved for posterity.

And? There are other archives. Maybe not as comprehensive but I
suspect once the Google link is broken there will be even more people
within the Usenet community trying to create an archive comparable in
time.

From February 15, 2024, the messages will get lost in the ethereal
Infinity. They will be saved temporarily on each newsreader
subscriber’s domain. That’s all! Only very few readers can see
them, and then the messages are wiped out for good.

Or people can use blueyonder or Narkive etc...

I posted this link yesterday which is for our group here.

https://rec.sport.soccer.narkive.com/

Many Usenet messages were also INDEXED by Google Groups. They
became available in Internet searches on some queries of value to
many Netizens. I know firsthand how valuable a referring source GG
is (WAS!). My website has received (up to) hundreds of referrals a
month from Google Groups!

You'll have to find a new way to reach other people now, a slight inconvenience... but hardly the end of the world.

Not to mention that the newsreader services are as cumbersome as
the first years of personal computing.

If people can't use a newsreader they shouldn't own a computer.

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In article <nnd$3c61e601$54942d95@f85336b4e71a5622>,
Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Ion Saliu wrote:

We are not dead — Usenet is. Google decided to kill Usenet for all
intents and purposes.

Ion must be Tim Bruening in disguise!

Google Groups was not Usenet. It was Google's portal to Usenet. But
Usenet existed outside of Google. So Google can not kill something
that they don't control. Google Groups will still exist just for
Google's groups. Usenet will still exist for people to talk about
soccer, computers, cars (etc.)... and download music, films and porn!
Trust me, Usenet is going nowhere.

Spot on correct!

The beauty of Google Groups (GG) was
PERSISTENCE. The messages were ARCHIVED — i.e., saved for posterity.

And? There are other archives. Maybe not as comprehensive but I
suspect once the Google link is broken there will be even more people
within the Usenet community trying to create an archive comparable in
time.

GG abused Usenet!

From February 15, 2024, the messages will get lost in the ethereal
Infinity. They will be saved temporarily on each newsreader
subscriber’s domain. That’s all! Only very few readers can see
them, and then the messages are wiped out for good.

Or people can use blueyonder or Narkive etc...

I posted this link yesterday which is for our group here.

https://rec.sport.soccer.narkive.com/

Thank for for the facts!

Many Usenet messages were also INDEXED by Google Groups. They
became available in Internet searches on some queries of value to
many Netizens. I know firsthand how valuable a referring source GG
is (WAS!). My website has received (up to) hundreds of referrals a
month from Google Groups!

You'll have to find a new way to reach other people now, a slight >inconvenience... but hardly the end of the world.

Ion must be as stupid as Tim Bruening!

Not to mention that the newsreader services are as cumbersome as
the first years of personal computing.

If people can't use a newsreader they shouldn't own a computer.

Hear! Hear!!
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