Google Groups ending Usenet access

[John Dallman]

"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, Google’s 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."

https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

John

[LucLan]

That is a good news. Thanks for sharing.

[EricP]

The Google-sourced flood is continuing on other groups such
as comp.os.vms which was an active group until this happened.
You can see the occasional plea for help mixed in amongst
the sea of spam.

[Scott Lurndal]

The referenced article indicates that google will terminate
peering in february 2024.

The downside is that the archive that they purchased when acquiring
DejaNews will not be updated as of that date, as they won't accept
articles from NNTP peers after that.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

On 12/15/2023 1:47 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> "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.

[...]

At least we can still search. Okay with me.

[Marco Moock]

Am 15.12.2023 schrieb j...@cix.co.uk (John Dallman):

As an alternative for those who used it, please see

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mail.sendmail/c/ns2o76BuHUw