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  • End of Usenet support for Google Groups

    From Ian Goddard@21:1/5 to All on Sat Dec 16 12:57:23 2023
    XPost: soc.genealogy.medieval, soc.genealogy.britain, soc.genealogy.ireland

    I've come across this.
    https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?hl=en

    Hopefully this means the end of newsgroup spam. It also means that the
    ongoing archive that Deja News started will cease to grow. How long
    Google keeps the old content there is anybody's guess.

    I wonder if someone else - archive .org maybe - will step forward to
    fill the gap.

    Ian

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  • From john@21:1/5 to Ian Goddard on Sat Dec 16 15:14:51 2023
    XPost: soc.genealogy.medieval, soc.genealogy.britain, soc.genealogy.ireland

    On 16/12/2023 12:57, Ian Goddard wrote:
    I've come across this. https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?hl=en

    Hopefully this means the end of newsgroup spam. It also means that
    the ongoing archive that Deja News started will cease to grow. How
    long Google keeps the old content there is anybody's guess.

    I wonder if someone else - archive .org maybe - will step forward to
    fill the gap.

    Ian

    As I've posted previously, there is narkive.com which includes https://soc.genealogy.britain.narkive.com
    You can use the web site search e.g. site://narkive.com "ian goddard"
    or the Advanced search option in many search engines

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  • From Renee McNeely@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 17 16:17:11 2023
    Knowing how little of a shit Google gave about the Usenet archives in
    the first place, I wouldn't be shocked if it all gets tossed in the
    trash the moment February 22nd comes.


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    Subject: End of Usenet support for Google Groups
    Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:57:23 +0000
    From: Ian Goddard <ian_ng@austonley.org.uk>
    Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval,soc.genealogy.britain,soc.genealogy.ireland,soc.genealogy.computing

    I've come across this.
    https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538?hl=en

    Hopefully this means the end of newsgroup spam. It also means that the
    ongoing archive that Deja News started will cease to grow. How long
    Google keeps the old content there is anybody's guess.

    I wonder if someone else - archive .org maybe - will step forward to
    fill the gap.

    Ian

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)