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. ;-) -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
