D <J@m> wrote:
> only curious how the usenet world might be notified that google had
> in fact shut down their usenet connection as per their announcement;
> could "news.admin.peering" be the best newsgroup to await the first
> confirmation that this widely-publicized decommission has occurred?
> if google were to make this announcement, that would close the case
They probably don't care about the Usenet.
I will be notified by huge amounts of Thai spam suddenly dropping to zero
(I monitor them and they still appear in huge quantities, fortunately my
server takes care for them).