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  • Re: USENET messages

    From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Friday, December 15, 2023 00:17:41
    On Sat, 9 Dec 2023 15:39:25 -0800
    "Digital Man" (VERT) <VERT![email protected]> wrote:

    Re: Re: USENET messages
    By: nelgin to All on Sat Dec 09 2023 05:52 am

    Yeah, and it seems Google may have tamped down on the spammers
    now. I haven't seen any in a couple days now.

    I wouldn't bet on it. I'm sitting here looking at my innd log and
    the hundreds of google groups cancels being done by the cancel
    bots.

    Yeah, I've been deleting a few every day now, still.


    Rumor is that Google Groups is shutting down in Feb 2024 as far as
    peering and new posts to usenet. That will be a relief to usenet admins everywhere.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to nelgin on Friday, December 15, 2023 07:14:33
    Re: Re: USENET messages
    By: nelgin to All on Fri Dec 15 2023 12:17 am


    Rumor is that Google Groups is shutting down in Feb 2024 as far as
    peering and new posts to usenet. That will be a relief to usenet admins everywhere.

    do they even give a shit? usenet is mostly binaries and that's even not as good as it used to be.

    i hope google groups shuts down, there's no real reason to have it. it's not very useful anymore.
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  • From Richard Miles@VERT to nelgin on Friday, December 15, 2023 18:12:31
    On 15 Dec 2023, nelgin said the following...

    Rumor is that Google Groups is shutting down in Feb 2024 as far as
    peering and new posts to usenet. That will be a relief to usenet admins everywhere.

    Sucks and it doesn't. There's only one google group that I belong to that isn't on Usenet. Those I can continue pulling into my board but I guess for the Tasker group I'll have to continue using Google.

    The great thing is that most of the spam I see is actually posted from Google Groups rather than usenet so dropping the support will be awesome.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to nelgin on Sunday, December 17, 2023 07:47:00
    nelgin wrote to All <=-

    Rumor is that Google Groups is shutting down in Feb 2024 as far as
    peering and new posts to usenet. That will be a relief to usenet admins everywhere.

    It's no rumor.

    Google Groups ending support for Usenet

    What's changing?
    Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups (at groups.google.com) to post content to Usenet groups, subscribe to Usenet groups, or view new Usenet content. You can continue to view and search
    for historical Usenet content posted before February 22, 2024 on Google
    Groups.

    In addition, Googles Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server and associated peering will no longer be available, meaning Google will not
    support serving new Usenet content or exchanging content with other NNTP servers.

    This change will not impact any non-Usenet content on Google Groups,
    including all user and organization-created groups. Most of the current
    Google Groups content is not Usenet content and will not be affected.
    If you work with Usenet groups in Google Groups, support for these
    groups is ending soon.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Richard Miles on Sunday, December 17, 2023 07:59:00
    Richard Miles wrote to nelgin <=-

    The great thing is that most of the spam I see is actually posted from Google Groups rather than usenet so dropping the support will be
    awesome.

    We can hope...



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  • From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, December 18, 2023 10:05:38
    Re: Re: USENET messages
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Sun Dec 17 2023 07:47:00

    It's no rumor.

    I said that because someone posted the same notice but I hadn't actually seen it myself.
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