On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Mark Roberts <postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote: > steve harley wrote: > >>On 2015-03-20 14:23 , John wrote: >>> Some time in (I believe) late 2006 Google bought out the UseNet Archive >>> and my ISP (Time-Warner Roadrunner) announced they were going to shut >>> down their news servers. >> >>Google bought the archive (which means they will probably delete it >>someday), but doesn't control Usenet, just provides probably the most-used >>interface to it these days > > Yep. The old web archiving service was called DejaNews. Google bought > them out and then was even more lax than DejaNews in enforcing their > TOS. This predictably led to even more trolling and other abuse, which > is probably exactly wanted to drive traffic away from Usenet and > toward web sites. Not that it wouldn't have happened anyway, but > Google certainly helped it happen faster and to a greater extent. > >>i just took a peek into rec.photo.digital and to see what we are missing, >>and felt no desire to stick around ;?> > > You're a brave man. ;-)
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