On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Paul M. Moriarty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Usenet?  How quaint.
I'm still resisting blogs, tweets, tiny urls, and cell phone text
messages. There's just something about being able to find a usenet
post after years.

Twits and the like are at the mercy of webmasters - here today, gone
tomorrow (or maybe just moved but not re-indexed).

> On Sep 6, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What's the deal with searching for sci.crypt usenet group?
>>
>> I used a popular text based search engine to locate the group using
>> the search "sci.crypt". The results were:
>> * sci.crypt.random-numbers
>> * sci.crypt.research
>> * 4 more
>>
>> Upon expanding "4 more", the next result was:
>> Science and Cryptography   [email protected]
>> To be a suitable replacement for sci.crypt.
>> 12 members
>>
>> The *last* result was the group sci.crypt.
>>
>> Why in the world would anyone want to use a 12-member "suitable
>> replacement" named "Science and Cryptography" when a group with deep
>> usenet tradition exists? Is this more SEO bullshit? Or just search
>> provider bullshit?
>>
>> Jeff
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