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Jan 5, 2024, 7:33:59β―PMJan 5
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with google's g2n gateway shutting down, its former inhabitants will be
dispersed, scattered abroad, displaced to the four corners of the earth,
multitudes of wayward outcasts in search of the fabulous user's network
Ed Corman
Jan 6, 2024, 3:56:56β―AMJan 6
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Google Groups for their occasional foray into text newsgroups. They
already have news server accounts. They will not be "in search of the
fabulous user's network".
Some of that multitude are people who believe Google bought out Usenet
lock stock and barrel, back when their ISP shut down its news server.
They will believe the "fabulous user's network" is a thing of the past
which no longer exists.
Marco Moock
Jan 6, 2024, 4:48:44β―AMJan 6
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Am 06.01.2024 um 08:56:49 Uhr schrieb Ed Corman:
> Some of that multitude are people who believe Google bought out
> Usenet lock stock and barrel, back when their ISP shut down its news
> server. They will believe the "fabulous user's network" is a thing of
> the past which no longer exists.
Google tells them in their message that they can continue to use it,
> Some of that multitude are people who believe Google bought out
> Usenet lock stock and barrel, back when their ISP shut down its news
> server. They will believe the "fabulous user's network" is a thing of
> the past which no longer exists.
but need another provide.
People who are able to read should be able to notice that. :-)
Joerg Walther
Jan 6, 2024, 5:14:35β―AMJan 6
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Ed Corman wrote:
>> with google's g2n gateway shutting down, its former inhabitants will be
>> dispersed, scattered abroad, displaced to the four corners of the earth,
>> multitudes of wayward outcasts in search of the fabulous user's network
>
>Some of that multitude are users of binary Usenet who genuinely prefer
>Google Groups for their occasional foray into text newsgroups.
Well, I am this kind of user and I know a number of others who do
>> with google's g2n gateway shutting down, its former inhabitants will be
>> dispersed, scattered abroad, displaced to the four corners of the earth,
>> multitudes of wayward outcasts in search of the fabulous user's network
>
>Some of that multitude are users of binary Usenet who genuinely prefer
>Google Groups for their occasional foray into text newsgroups.
binaries as well as text newsgroups, but never would it have come to my
mind that using a lame browser for text newsgroups would have been an
alternative to using a proper newsreader. There may be others...
-jw-
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And now for something completely different...
D
Jan 6, 2024, 8:12:10β―AMJan 6
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Jan 6, 2024, 2:50:09β―PMJan 6
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On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 08:56:49 -0000, LO AND BEHOLD; Ed Corman
<nor...@spamfree.invalid> determined that the following was of not
great importance to Ed Corman <nor...@spamfree.invalid> and
subsequently decided to NOT freely share it with us in
<3c3697ac4544.4392dad3@localhost>:
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= D wrote:
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= with google's g2n gateway shutting down, its former inhabitants will be
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= dispersed, scattered abroad, displaced to the four corners of the earth,
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= multitudes of wayward outcasts in search of the fabulous user's network
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Some of that multitude are users of binary Usenet who genuinely prefer
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Google Groups for their occasional foray into text newsgroups. They
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= already have news server accounts. They will not be "in search of the
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= fabulous user's network".
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Some of that multitude are people who believe Google bought out Usenet
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= lock stock and barrel, back when their ISP shut down its news server.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= They will believe the "fabulous user's network" is a thing of the past
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= which no longer exists.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
Amazing. Someone gets it.
--
"If you worried half as much about your own personal life as you do
everyone else's, you might almost be tolerable, obsessed stalker."
-James "Checkmate" Gorman, in perhaps the most ironic and
mentally-challenged statement ever made on Usenet.
<MPG.4001ba2c1...@usnews.blocknews.net>
Golden Killfile, June 2005
KOTM, November 2006
Bob Allisat Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, November 2006
Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, November 2006
Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, September 2007
Tony Sidaway Memorial "Drama Queen" Award, November 2006
Busted Urinal Award, April 2007
Order of the Holey Sockpuppet, September 2007
Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, September 2006
Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, April 2008
Tinfoil Sombrero, February 2007
AUK Mascot, September 2007
Putting the Awards Out of Order to Screw With the OCD Fuckheads, March 2016
<nor...@spamfree.invalid> determined that the following was of not
great importance to Ed Corman <nor...@spamfree.invalid> and
subsequently decided to NOT freely share it with us in
<3c3697ac4544.4392dad3@localhost>:
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= D wrote:
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= with google's g2n gateway shutting down, its former inhabitants will be
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= dispersed, scattered abroad, displaced to the four corners of the earth,
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= =?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= multitudes of wayward outcasts in search of the fabulous user's network
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Some of that multitude are users of binary Usenet who genuinely prefer
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Google Groups for their occasional foray into text newsgroups. They
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= already have news server accounts. They will not be "in search of the
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= fabulous user's network".
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= Some of that multitude are people who believe Google bought out Usenet
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= lock stock and barrel, back when their ISP shut down its news server.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= They will believe the "fabulous user's network" is a thing of the past
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?= which no longer exists.
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Ps++4j+KAjfCfjIg=?=
Amazing. Someone gets it.
--
"If you worried half as much about your own personal life as you do
everyone else's, you might almost be tolerable, obsessed stalker."
-James "Checkmate" Gorman, in perhaps the most ironic and
mentally-challenged statement ever made on Usenet.
<MPG.4001ba2c1...@usnews.blocknews.net>
Golden Killfile, June 2005
KOTM, November 2006
Bob Allisat Memorial Hook, Line & Sinker, November 2006
Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, November 2006
Special Ops Cody Memorial Purple Heart, September 2007
Tony Sidaway Memorial "Drama Queen" Award, November 2006
Busted Urinal Award, April 2007
Order of the Holey Sockpuppet, September 2007
Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, September 2006
Barbara Woodhouse Memorial Dog Whistle, April 2008
Tinfoil Sombrero, February 2007
AUK Mascot, September 2007
Putting the Awards Out of Order to Screw With the OCD Fuckheads, March 2016
Stan Brown
Jan 6, 2024, 6:36:26β―PMJan 6
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Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/
Shikata ga nai...
morse
Jan 7, 2024, 12:37:12β―AMJan 7
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On 06 Jan 2024, Stan Brown <the_sta...@fastmail.fm> posted some
news:MPG.400383d38...@news.individual.net:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 10:48:42 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
>>
>> Am 06.01.2024 um 08:56:49 Uhr schrieb Ed Corman:
>>
>> > Some of that multitude are people who believe Google bought out
>> > Usenet lock stock and barrel, back when their ISP shut down its news
>> > server. They will believe the "fabulous user's network" is a thing of
>> > the past which no longer exists.
>>
>> Google tells them in their message that they can continue to use it,
>> but need another provide.
>>
>> People who are able to read should be able to notice that. :-)
>
> A talent not noticeably overabundant among Usenet users.
It's selective ignorance.
news:MPG.400383d38...@news.individual.net:
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 10:48:42 +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
>>
>> Am 06.01.2024 um 08:56:49 Uhr schrieb Ed Corman:
>>
>> > Some of that multitude are people who believe Google bought out
>> > Usenet lock stock and barrel, back when their ISP shut down its news
>> > server. They will believe the "fabulous user's network" is a thing of
>> > the past which no longer exists.
>>
>> Google tells them in their message that they can continue to use it,
>> but need another provide.
>>
>> People who are able to read should be able to notice that. :-)
>
> A talent not noticeably overabundant among Usenet users.
%
Jan 7, 2024, 1:24:07β―AMJan 7
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On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 05:37:07 -0000 (UTC), morse said:
.
--
DAVID "ASSWORM" KEETING ~~~"
"its usually the lesser intelligent person , that comments
on the more intelligent person's , lack of intelligents
and we all think what we do has major significants"
-David James Keeting, in perhaps the most ironic and retarded statement
ever made on Usenet.
Ed Corman
Jan 9, 2024, 3:52:00β―AMJan 9
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continue to use Usenet. The message they see in Google Groups says only
this:
| Effective February 22, 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.
You expect those people to click a 'Learn more' link to go to a Google
support page and when they get there to read a 366-word page to find
*and* also understand this information half-way down. If someone is the
type who already believes Google bought out Usenet lock stock and
barrel, he or she is unlikely to complete all of that. Many won't even
click the link.
Joerg Walther
Jan 9, 2024, 4:49:37β―AMJan 9
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Ed Corman wrote:
>You expect those people to click a 'Learn more' link to go to a Google
>support page and when they get there to read a 366-word page to find
>*and* also understand this information half-way down. If someone is the
>type who already believes Google bought out Usenet lock stock and
>barrel, he or she is unlikely to complete all of that. Many won't even
>click the link.
Well, I am certainly not going to miss people that fit this description.
>You expect those people to click a 'Learn more' link to go to a Google
>support page and when they get there to read a 366-word page to find
>*and* also understand this information half-way down. If someone is the
>type who already believes Google bought out Usenet lock stock and
>barrel, he or she is unlikely to complete all of that. Many won't even
>click the link.
D
Jan 9, 2024, 10:15:49β―AMJan 9
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user-friendly rocksolid light web2news format very much to their liking;
and with no more google spam, even unfiltered newsgroups would probably
be much easier to read . . . only 44 days left until the goo goes kaput
Paul
Jan 9, 2024, 1:33:05β―PMJan 9
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Will only happen if you drag them kicking and screaming,
one refugee at a time.
I've even tied a red ribbon on my refugee, as proof it can be done.
"Get Me to the Church on Time"
https://cdn.britannica.com/61/90661-050-517883E2/Rex-Harrison-Audrey-Hepburn-My-Fair-Lady.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmU3iANbgk
44 days to go.
Paul
ratt
Jan 9, 2024, 3:41:36β―PMJan 9
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On 09 Jan 2024, Paul <nos...@needed.invalid> posted some
news:unk3gv$23sdl$1...@dont-email.me:
Google is like Costco. They find a decent product, remake it (destroy it)
in their own image (Kirkland), then wonder why people don't like it.
news:unk3gv$23sdl$1...@dont-email.me:
in their own image (Kirkland), then wonder why people don't like it.
ratt
Jan 9, 2024, 4:02:19β―PMJan 9
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On 09 Jan 2024, Ed Corman <nor...@spamfree.invalid> posted some
news:bea243f9bbd2.5870e308@localhost:
That's the end result of progressive liberal education policies. Not to
worry. Many of them can't read or write well enough to support
themselves so the problem is self-solving when they OD or starve to
death.
news:bea243f9bbd2.5870e308@localhost:
worry. Many of them can't read or write well enough to support
themselves so the problem is self-solving when they OD or starve to
death.
D
Jan 9, 2024, 6:07:58β―PMJan 9
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(huyton, lancashire, 2w50:27/53n24:19) is still there believe it or not;
if google really does shutter their g2n, a flood of nanny-state zombies
could be unleashed against the user's network, taxing servers into "dos"
immibis
Jan 9, 2024, 9:58:42β―PMJan 9
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On 1/9/24 22:02, ratt wrote:
>
> That's the end result of progressive liberal education policies. Not to
> worry. Many of them can't read or write well enough to support
> themselves so the problem is self-solving when they OD or starve to
> death.
>
You describe conservative policies and the results of conservative
>
> That's the end result of progressive liberal education policies. Not to
> worry. Many of them can't read or write well enough to support
> themselves so the problem is self-solving when they OD or starve to
> death.
>
policies, then blame them on "progressive liberals" (a non-existent
group, just like conservative liberals). Maybe you're just here to push
an agenda? If so, kindly fuck off.
Indira
Jan 10, 2024, 5:38:45β―AMJan 10
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Marco Moock wrote:
> Google tells them in their message that they can continue to use it,
> but need another provider.
> Google tells them in their message that they can continue to use it,
On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 10:48:42 +0100, Marco Moock <mm+s...@dorfdsl.de> wrote
> Google tells them in their message that they can continue to use it,
I'm one of those Google Groups users who liked it because I can post to
Usenet without paying for a server - all I need is a posting account.
But where does a Google Groups user find those free posting accounts?
The ones I know of are certainly not the full list, but maybe the ones
everyone on this thread knows of might be close to that full list?
Here are the replacements for the Google Groups diaspora that I know of
that server MOST of teh text newsgroups for anyone who asks for an account
(as there are many specialized servers that only serve very select
newsgroups, and there are others that serve only some countries, etc).
Listing free servers alphabetically (to jog my memory and yours), I know of
A = Albasani (read/write)
B = Blue World (read/write)
C =
D = Dizum (read only)
E = Eternal September (read/write)
F =
G =
H =
I = ip2n (read/write)
J =
K =
L =
M = Mixmin (read only)
N = NovaBBS (read/Write), Netfront (read only), News4All (read/write)
O =
P = Paganini (read/write)
Q =
R =
S = Solani (read/write), Sunsite (read/write)
T =
U = Usenet4All (read/write)
V =
W =
X = xsusenet (read only)
Y =
Z =
That's only from my memory so much of it could be outdated or wrong.
Howard H.
Jan 10, 2024, 5:47:42β―AMJan 10
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immibis <ne...@immibis.com> wrote in news:unl150$2bl00$3...@dont-email.me:
If thine eyes offend thee pluck them out, ehh? Same go for your brain?
Liberals have been ruining education in the USA since the 60s & 70s.
Rural schools taught American Politics, American Government, American
Problems, Social Studies, a host of other things that enabled people to
keep watch on government and get along with each other.
Metro schools only taught half of those classes, maybe.
Why was that?
Teachers unions and really dumb PTA parents.
Liberals have been ruining education in the USA since the 60s & 70s.
Rural schools taught American Politics, American Government, American
Problems, Social Studies, a host of other things that enabled people to
keep watch on government and get along with each other.
Metro schools only taught half of those classes, maybe.
Why was that?
Teachers unions and really dumb PTA parents.
SugarBug
Jan 10, 2024, 6:09:05β―AMJan 10
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:08:39 +0530
Indira <ind...@ghandi.net> wrote:
> But where does a Google Groups user find those free posting accounts?
Sixteeen Free Usenet Servers and several Boutique NNTP servers
Indira <ind...@ghandi.net> wrote:
> But where does a Google Groups user find those free posting accounts?
https://sybershock.com/#usenet
All sixteen hosts are read and write.
> That's only from my memory so much of it could be outdated or wrong.
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38...@sugar.bug | sybershock.com | alt.sources.crypto
Carlos E.R.
Jan 11, 2024, 5:57:55β―AMJan 11
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On 2024-01-10 12:03, SugarBug wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:08:39 +0530
> Indira <ind...@ghandi.net> wrote:
>
>> But where does a Google Groups user find those free posting accounts?
>
> Sixteeen Free Usenet Servers and several Boutique NNTP servers
> https://sybershock.com/#usenet
>
> All sixteen hosts are read and write.
How about adding that information to Wikipedia?
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 16:08:39 +0530
> Indira <ind...@ghandi.net> wrote:
>
>> But where does a Google Groups user find those free posting accounts?
>
> Sixteeen Free Usenet Servers and several Boutique NNTP servers
> https://sybershock.com/#usenet
>
> All sixteen hosts are read and write.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
It can be the list itself included there, or a link on the "External
links" section.
--
Cheers, Carlos.
candycanearter07
Jan 11, 2024, 10:49:49β―AMJan 11
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to find, and anyone curious about USENET can make an account straight
from the Wikipedia page.
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom
Carlos E.R.
Jan 29, 2024, 2:34:19β―PMJan 29
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Sorry for the delay, I had forgotten.
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Cheers, Carlos.
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