general thought about Google Groups & Usenet etc.

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jkn

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Dec 21, 2023, 5:07:37 AM12/21/23

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Hi all

just musing, really ... as many will know, Google are preventing, from Feb 2024, content being posted to USENET groups via Google Groups.

For at least some people this will be a disincentive to use USENET groups (probably part of their longer term plan).

I realise that leo-editor is *not* a USENET group - it is a 'Google Groups group' or something similar. But this change will make it an outlier, at least for me. I will probably switch to using the www.eternal-september.org USENET server instead of via a browser.

Just musing on whether being tied to Google is a good idea for this forum...

In any case, very best wishes of the season to all on this newsgroup. I ope to try out LeoJS over the holiday period...

Regards

J^n

Edward K. Ream

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Dec 21, 2023, 6:11:57 AM12/21/23

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On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 4:07 AM jkn <jkn...@nicorp.f9.co.uk> wrote:

Hi all
just musing, really ... as many will know, Google are preventing, from Feb 2024, content being posted to USENET groups via Google Groups.

Thanks for this update. I'm happy with all aspects of Leo's online tools and see no reason to change.