[Info-vax] OT? Where has Google Groups Gone ?

[jbriggs444]

On Jun 30, 1:40 pm, "John Wallace" <n... at any.price> wrote:
> "Bob Koehler" <koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message
>
> news:zHevZy$TRoQE at eisner.encompasserve.org...
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> > In article <cpadnZ8LHtKfupfTnZ2dnUVZ7tCdn... at brightview.co.uk>, "John
> > Wallace" <n... at any.price> writes:
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> >> Suggestions welcome for alternative low cost (preferably free) web based
> >> newsgroup access.
>
> >   I'm using news.sunsite.dk, which provides free, but limited access.
>
> As far as I can see,  news.sunsite.dk provide a news server for use with a
> conventional newsreader.  Personally I have no interest in binary newsgroups
> so if they don't do them, that's fine.
>
> To post this I'm using my ISP's news server from my laptop but I was ideally
> looking for a a web-based thing more like Google Groups, so I can look when
> my laptop (and emergency client) isn't available (eg breaks at work, when
> away from home, etc).
>
> I'm also wondering about the archive at derkeiler:http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.os.vms/which has traditionally
> been a good resource for finding ng things if google groups was being
> unhelpful.
>
> On the surface it does look as though something upstream, common to both
> Google and derkeiler, may have stopped working right a few days ago..

Google caught up to the 30'th overnight.