Just a test post, to see if I can post in this group
Google has removed write access to certain GG gropus ...
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:41:52 +0000, Mike Terry wrote:
Google has removed write access to certain GG gropus ...
All hail the imminent extinction of the Google Gropus!
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:41:52 +0000, Mike Terry wrote:
Google has removed write access to certain GG gropus ...
All hail the imminent extinction of the Google Gropus!
Google Groups will still exist. What's being removed is its interface
to Usenet -- though articles posted before the cutoff will still be
available (until they decide they don't want to maintain that either).
I would have preferred if they had continued accepting articles from
other servers while cutting off the ability to post, so they could
continue to provide an up-to-date archive, but that's not what they did.
On 20/02/2024 04:21, Keith Thompson wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:41:52 +0000, Mike Terry wrote:
Google has removed write access to certain GG gropus ...
All hail the imminent extinction of the Google Gropus!
Google Groups will still exist. What's being removed is its interface
to Usenet -- though articles posted before the cutoff will still be
available (until they decide they don't want to maintain that either).
I would have preferred if they had continued accepting articles from
other servers while cutting off the ability to post, so they could
continue to provide an up-to-date archive, but that's not what they did.
Even better, they could have found a way to stop the spam so that people
who wanted to use Google Groups to post, could still have done so. All they really needed to do was introduce some delays - if you create a new account, you cannot post to Usenet in the first 24 hours. And accounts used to post to Usenet need to have two-factor authentication enabled.
That would pretty much end all but the most dedicated of spammers and trolls, while still allowing those that used GG to post by necessity.
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