On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:33:16 -0500, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: > Jay Garcia wrote: >> On 22.01.2012 03:14, Jochen Roderburg wrote: >> >> --- Original Message --- >> >>> Anybody knows why this seamonkey newsgroup is no longer available via Google >>> groups? They say: >>> >>> The group named mozilla.support.seamonkey has been removed because it >>> violated Google's Terms Of Service. >>> >>> No more explanations. :-( >>> >>> That's a pity because I found it always very convenient to browse through >>> the discussions there. I used the direct NNTP access only when I wanted to >>> post something myself (like this message ;-) >>> >>> Regards, Jochen Roderburg >> >> I filed a bug on this: >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720223 >> > Now, if, somebody manages to 'resurrect' the *Google* group > mozilla.support.seamonkey what kind of mess will be the result? > > There will be the 'official' newsgroup mozilla.support.seamonkey hosted on the > Mozilla news server. > There will be the 'Google' group mozilla.support.seamonkey hosted at Google > and > There may be the/an Internet newsgroup mozilla.support.seamonkey (if one has > gotten created within that structure) > > Items posted on 'official' newsgroup will be picked up by the other two. > Discussions posted to Google will probably remain locked up within Google and > things posted to the Internet newsgroup mozilla.support.seamonkey will get > passed on to those hosts which receive that newsgroup. They may get picked up > by Google. But will probably not make it to the Mozilla news server. > (This last situation was the case with the Netscape newsgroups, where there > were > any number of postings floating around but not getting archived to the > 'official' collection.) > > So of what benefit is it create/resurrect the Google group named > mozilla.support.seamonkey? Certainly let, encourage, Google to archive and > mirror the content on the Mozilla news server, but not to set up a private > group with private contents.
The mozilla.* groups on Google Groups *are* supposed to be mirrors for the official newsgroup/mailing list. Which is why it's so puzzling that it was removed for violating the Google TOS. Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
