Google Groups retirement

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In case you haven't seen their annoncement yet:

"Effective February 22, 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. Viewing and searching of
historical data will still be supported as it is done today."

This termination of usenet access through Google Groups is to take
effect one month from now. For excuse, they claim that usenet carries
mostly spam nowadays, even though the dozens of spam messages with an
indian twang to them that were posted to <sci.math.symbolic> in
December appeared to originate with Google's usenet interface.

With Google Groups gone, an NNTP server convenient for reading
<sci.math.symbolic> is <news://news.neodome.net>, where one is not
allowed to post but does not have to to register for a password. For
free posting to <sci.math.symbolic>, you may register at the
Eternal-September website to obtain an account plus password and then
use it with <news://news.eternal-september.org>. There are other free
but password-protected servers as well.

Curious to see if <sci.math.symbolic> can survive this,

Martin.

PS: You may contact me in private if you want to post on the NNTP
server I am using here - there is a semi-public account plus password
that I was able to guess. Those in the FriCAS orbit may contact Waldek
to whom I mailed this information privately in May 2023, though he
appears to have lost interest in posting to <sci.math.symbolic>
nonetheless.

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

How about creating a discussion forum at sourceforge?

https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Discussion/

Maxima and Reduce are hosted there. They both have discussion forums there.
May be we can make a new discussion forum there for symbolic computation?

Other alternatives are discord forum?

usenet looks like it is dying.

--Nasser