On 19/02/2024 13:40, Paul N wrote:
> Just a test post, to see if I can post in this group
>
Paul - you seem to be unaware of /why/ you can post in some groups and not others, which suggests
you are also unaware of the forthcoming Google Groups (GG) change which will affect you!
Google has removed write access to certain GG gropus which mirror the corresponding Usenet groups.
Note Usenet is not part of Google, and you could still post to those groups if you were posting via
Usenet, rather than Google. It did this because those GG groups were being targetted by spammers,
and it was not inclined to solve the issue by other means. [I suppose making those groups read-only
was a cheap option for Google.]
In just a few days (3 days??) Google will completely sever the links between Usenet and GG, and any
GG groups mirroring Usenet (like comp.theory, comp.programming) will be frozen within GG at that
point in time. They will all become read-only, and will not contain any new posts (made via Usenet)
after the Usenet link was severed. [Thus solving their spamming problem once and for all! :) ]
Anyway, if you want to continue posting to groups like this, you will need to set yourself up as a
Usenet user: you will need a Usenet newsreader client program, and sort out a Usenet server from
which you will download articles. You could e.g. download Thunderbird (free) and configure it to
connect to Eternal September (free, but registration is required), and a number of posters use that
combination. Or search in Google for lists of Usenet clients and servers you could use...
Regards,
Mike.