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> On Mar 20, 2015, at 5:48 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Mark Roberts > <[email protected]> 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. ;-) > > I still have a usefilm account > > Dave Ditto. But I'm not sure what my password might be. >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
