On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:29:58 -0800 (PST) Vince Skahan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps you should try and do some experiments. :-) Yes, I should. But what I'm confronted with is a road map from Google. They are assuring YOU folks at WeeWX that your Google Groups bulletin board will not be affected by decommissioning their USENET interface. Hey! That sounds about right, but allow me some skepticism on that score. Right now, there doesn't appear to be any way to experiment with the future. > Currently you can 'read' without logging into anything and without > using a particular browser. Yes, that's true. I can view: + https://groups.google.com/g/weewx-development ... with the TOR Browser. > I certainly suspect that to subscribe via email would (should) > require some verification but I don't know there. Also suspect > posting 'should' require you to either be logged in via the web > interface or be posting from an email previously subscribed to the > list (spam prevention). Yes, I am subscribed to *weewx-development* via eMail. The subscription is under my GMail account, and I had to use my GMail login through a non-TOR browser to set up the Groups subscriptions. Presumably I can post from the above groups link by logging in. I don't do that, though. Instead, I post by eMailing a response to: + mailto:[email protected] ... from my GMail address. And, no, it doesn't work from my "regular" eMail address. ... so, it's the future of this asynchronous eMail interaction with (non-USENET) Google Groups bulletin boards that is in question. I can only hope the capability is maintained. What is confusing me is that I use the same mail-user agent (MUA) (in my case *claws-mail*) for both Groups and USENET. I read and post to Groups through eMail. I read and post to USENET through a paid subscription to GigaNews, but, apart from configuration differences, the user-facing interaction with my MUA including threaded lists appears identical. > And nobody ever knows what product Google will kill next so > speculation there is fruitless. Ain't it the Truth! I harbor a bit of trepidation that eMail subscription to Groups is on the bubble. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-development/20231216102830.2d7549b5%40BigTimber.LacusVeris.com.
