Google buying the archive didn't kill UseNet, but combining it with
Gmail & their own non-Usenet Google Groups didn't help. I think what may
have really done it was the difficulty of creating a killfile that would
work with the web interface.
It was my own ISP's decision to no longer provide newsgroup access that
did it for me.
On 3/20/2015 5:11 PM, 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
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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