[Info-vax] A cry for help

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Mon Dec 4 08:53:16 EST 2023


On 2023-12-03, Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> On 12/3/23 06:56, Andy Burns wrote:
>> You shouldn't rely on google to preserve the archive forever (n.b. a few 
>> years ago google users started spamming uk.telecom with credit card 
>> data, in response google removed the group from G2, which made the 
>> archive inaccessible).
>
> My personal opinion is that Google is going to eventually deprecate the 
> Google Groups Usenet gateway and any / all history that they had will 
> disappear.  Probably more silently than we would like.
>

Have you noticed how Google keeps killing the products that people still
use, but will not kill the product that many wish _would_ disappear. :-)

Simon.

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