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
in the early days (pre-web) access to nntp content was a given, and then in the middle years my ISPs had solid nntp servers, but these days it looks like it is pay to play if you want to avoid google
i just took a peek into rec.photo.digital and to see what we are missing, and felt no desire to stick around ;?>
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