The de facto end of comp.lang.postscript

[jdaw1]

Google:

> Effective from 22 February 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.

In effect, this will be the end of comp.lang.postscript. I’ve been here since 2006, and have received much help here, always courteous and competent. Thank you.

Even though only a few of us remain, should we have a online video commemoration, to raise a toast to the passing of an elderly friend?

[Marc Olschok]

What is wrong with using an ordinary newsclient?

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M.O.

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:53:02 -0000 (UTC), Marc Olschok wrote:

> What is wrong with using an ordinary newsclient?

Some of us are looking forward to, hoping for, a rebirth of USENET after
the exit of da Goog.

[ne...@zzo38computer.org.invalid]

jdaw1 <jdawi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Effective from 22 February 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.
>
> In effect, this will be the end of comp.lang.postscript. I've been here
> since 2006, and have received much help here, always courteous and competent.

That isn't the end of Usenet. It means that it is no longer on Google. (There
are other Usenet providers. I don't use Google.) (There have been spam and
other bad quality messages coming from Google, so hopefully such messages will
be reduced since they will not come from Google.)

(I have a draft message to this newsgroup that I have recently started writing;
I have not finished it yet but will post it here once it is. It might or might
not be available on Google, though.)

> Even though only a few of us remain, should we have a online video
> commemoration, to raise a toast to the passing of an elderly friend?

Why do you need a video?

--
Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.

[jdaw1]

Agreed, it is not the end of Usenet. But for many, including me, google has been a very convenient means of access. Its demise might mean that questions that would previously have come here instead go to the likes of StackOverflow or Quora. Hence ‘𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘰’ end.

> Why do you need a video?

Because there are people here who, since 2006, have helped an anonymous stranger, and I thought that some might like to humanise the event. But if not, that’s fine too: I can open a bottle of Port without the video. For I am the author of
https://academieduvinlibrary.com/product/port-vintages/
And indeed, the main purpose for which I use PostScript is related to drinking Port (something that not many others can claim):
https://github.com/jdaw1/placemat/