• Are the clowns still bombarding the group?

    From Leon@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 2 14:09:10 2024
    Title says it all.

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  • From Puckdropper@21:1/5 to Leon on Fri Aug 2 20:11:43 2024
    Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in news:- fKcnbeo5b9IszD7nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com:

    Title says it all.


    I asked a somewhat odd question, so yes?

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Leon on Fri Aug 2 21:47:46 2024
    Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> writes:
    Title says it all.

    No. Google turned off the google groups gateway
    to usenet in february.

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  • From hubops@ccanoemail.com@21:1/5 to Leon on Fri Aug 2 18:32:32 2024
    On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 14:09:10 -0500, Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote:

    Title says it all.



    They're all over in alt home repair ..

    John T.

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  • From Casper@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 4 09:58:10 2024
    scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) was heard to mutter:

    Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> writes:
    Title says it all.

    No. Google turned off the google groups gateway
    to usenet in february.

    Google doesn't control Usenet posts. You "may" se less if you only use
    Google groups.
    Welcome to USEnet. Adjust your reality.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Casper on Sun Aug 4 17:30:27 2024
    Casper <casper@ghostmail.cc> writes:
    scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) was heard to mutter:

    Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> writes:
    Title says it all.

    No. Google turned off the google groups gateway
    to usenet in february.

    Google doesn't control Usenet posts.

    The "clowns" in the subject line that Leon referred
    to were posting using google groups around the turn of
    the year, the message bodies were mostly in Thai.

    Google groups stopped supporting posting to usenet in February,
    mainly because they weren't interested in policing the
    posts that originated from GG.

    To that extent, they control all usenet posts that originate
    from Google Groups.



    Welcome to USEnet. Adjust your reality.

    I've been on usenet since 1987.

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  • From Casper@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 5 11:08:32 2024
    scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) was heard to mutter:

    Casper <casper@ghostmail.cc> writes:
    scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) was heard to mutter:

    Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> writes:
    Title says it all.

    No. Google turned off the google groups gateway
    to usenet in february.

    Google doesn't control Usenet posts.

    The "clowns" in the subject line that Leon referred
    to were posting using google groups around the turn of
    the year, the message bodies were mostly in Thai.

    Yes, I remember. I sadly still see similar postings.

    Google groups stopped supporting posting to usenet in February,
    mainly because they weren't interested in policing the
    posts that originated from GG.

    Very probably true. No one, esecially businesses, wants to spend time
    and money on futile things.

    Are you posting from Google Groups? Are Leon and Puck?

    I'm reading this post from rec.woodworking on Usenet. Not via GG.

    I tried GG years ago but few groups I read were available. I stuck
    with Usenet but it's a far cry from what it was and fading.

    Let me know if you want a screenshot.

    To that extent, they control all usenet posts that originate
    from Google Groups.

    Yes, Google controls what comes from Google.

    I've been on usenet since 1987.
    Congrats! Nice to know I'm not alone.
    I started in '81. I still miss my acoustic coupler.
    As a few here I suspect do, I live in the land of CRAP (constant
    reminder aches and pains) of old geeks.

    I've been on Usenet too long. On EasyNews for 22.689 years alone and
    more (previously) on Newscene, Giganews, and others. A number of
    companies I worked for and with used newsgroups to communicate
    technical information, before the days of online chat and IT
    informational database applications. Now Usenet is just a place of
    random junk posts of trojans, viruses, scams, and trolls, etc,.

    <snip>
    Anybody who wants to stay current on Usenet will need to find a new
    client and network news transfer protocol server–the post advises
    Googling for help with those things–while the non-Usenet parts of
    Google Groups will remain as they are today.
    <end snip>
    Referenced from: https://www.pcmag.com/news/end-of-an-era-google-groups-to-drop-usenet-support


    Reminds me of a well known technical journalist (a.k.a. Bob Cringely)
    who wrote an article decades ago saying broadband was dead. Many of my collegues were in disbelief this guy would write said article that I
    had to give them copies. Goes to prove we literally don't know what's
    coming or the entire story. If broadband had died, Covid lockdown
    would have been an entirely different experience. I'm glad it's not
    dead and hope it gets broader and faster.

    <snip>
    Bob Cringely says Broadband is Dead (Article posted 2001-10-11 on PBS)
    Friday Oct 12 2001 10:29 EDT by mszv

    Cringley's latest pulpit reads comprehensive last rites over the still
    warm and twitching body of the broadband industry. CLECs, Telcos,
    ISPs, Cable providers and even the broadband porno industry, are all
    condemned as at best, stagnant, at worst doomed. Over to the man
    himself:

    By this, I mean that the industry for providing homes and individual
    users with Internet access at speeds in excess of 500
    kilobits-per-second is not generally viable, and the current players
    in that business are likely to decline over time. There will be little
    or no growth in broadband subscriptions over this next year, and it
    will be very hard for broadband ISPs to be profitable.
    Taking a leaf from the book of a contrarian wall street trader, one
    who sells gold when his cab driver starts to buy it, one could say
    that now everything is known to be doomed, is it time for the
    strongest to start making some real money?
    <end snip>

    Maybe I should update that tagline? lol!
    Welcome to [USEnet] InterNET? Adjust your reality.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to Casper on Mon Aug 5 15:24:58 2024
    Casper <casper@ghostmail.cc> writes:
    scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) was heard to mutter:

    Are you posting from Google Groups? Are Leon and Puck?

    Obviously not. Your usenet news reader application should be
    able to show the headers in our posts.

    Your headers show that you're using ForteAgent.

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  • From Puckdropper@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Tue Aug 6 03:39:57 2024
    scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote in news:e96sO.77739$ewT2.14224 @fx09.iad:

    Casper <casper@ghostmail.cc> writes:
    scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) was heard to mutter:

    Are you posting from Google Groups? Are Leon and Puck?

    Obviously not. Your usenet news reader application should be
    able to show the headers in our posts.

    Your headers show that you're using ForteAgent.


    Astraweb... 25 bucks for pretty much unlimited text-based posts. Something like 80 GB of data. For text posts with no fancy formatting, tracking, metrics, advertising, and all the other stuff that businesses love, that's unlimited.

    Even reddit is falling. reddit used to be so text-focused it was
    wonderful. The smarter people usually hung out there--they read chapter
    books and not picture books.

    Puckdropper

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  • From Casper@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 6 13:22:17 2024
    Casper <casper@ghostmail.cc> writes:
    Are you posting from Google Groups? Are Leon and Puck?

    scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) was heard to mutter:
    Obviously not. Your usenet news reader application should be
    able to show the headers in our posts.

    Header view optional and I keep them turned off.
    These days I spend more time with doctors than data.

    Your headers show that you're using ForteAgent.

    Yes, the last version of a dying era? 30 years is a good run.

    I'd ask how XRN is but you might be a bit partial to it? ;)

    I am a fan of the MITSFS Library and TR mag.

    Cheers and have a great day.
    May all the clowns go back to the circus. ;)

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  • From Just Wondering@21:1/5 to Leon on Wed Aug 7 12:49:53 2024
    On 8/2/2024 1:09 PM, Leon wrote:
    Title says it all.

    The clowns have gone, but the damage they wreaked has made the
    usual posters disappear, to the point the newsgroup is nearly dead.

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  • From DJ Delorie@21:1/5 to Just Wondering on Wed Aug 7 17:23:53 2024
    Just Wondering <JW@jw.com> writes:
    The clowns have gone, but the damage they wreaked has made the
    usual posters disappear, to the point the newsgroup is nearly dead.

    I'm not dead yet!

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  • From Markem618@21:1/5 to DJ Delorie on Wed Aug 7 18:03:51 2024
    On Wed, 07 Aug 2024 17:23:53 -0400, DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:

    Just Wondering <JW@jw.com> writes:
    The clowns have gone, but the damage they wreaked has made the
    usual posters disappear, to the point the newsgroup is nearly dead.

    I'm not dead yet!

    Bring out your dead, bring your dead!

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  • From Just Wondering@21:1/5 to DJ Delorie on Fri Aug 9 15:33:00 2024
    On 8/7/2024 3:23 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
    Just Wondering <JW@jw.com> writes:
    The clowns have gone, but the damage they wreaked has made the
    usual posters disappear, to the point the newsgroup is nearly dead.

    I'm not dead yet!

    Is that a Monty Python Holy Grail quote?

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