Re: Replacement for Google Groups?

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> writes:
 

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
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Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
 

VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> posted:

 
Elsewhere you mention you will block UK visitors to circumvent kowtowing
to the UK Online Safety Act requirements and dangers thereof. 

 
I haven't understood why the block.  Could you clarify?

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See Colin's thread over in the eternal-september.support newsgroup
titled "Newsgroups and the UK Online Safety Act".

 
The support group is 24hoursupport.helpdesk. 

No, the newsgroup with Colin's discussion on his block is in the
specified newsgroup: eternal-september.support.  I haven't wasted time
with the 24hoursupport.helpdesk for many years.

I don't know if Colin bothers to visit 24hoursupport.helpdesk.  I did
many years ago, but it became so polluted with unwanteds and uber-boobs
that I left.  If it died, well, I considered it a garbage newsgroup long
ago.  Way too many rotten apples in the barrel to waste trying to find
unspoiled ones. 

I just took a look, and saw very few articles (that survived my
filters), and most were very old.  The article counts (before filtering)
were very low:

     8 at Eternal-September
   253 at Individual (my primary server)
  1253 at Paganini
    86 at Solani

That is also before my age-out rules since I purge articles older than
120 days.  It is not my intention to operate an archive, and importance,
to me, dies with age.  Looks like 24hoursupport.helpdesk died from
attrition.

More likely you'll find Colin posting in alt.free.newsservers, and over
in the ES support newsgroup since he peers from ES and converses with
Ray, the ES admin.  He said he also peers from BlueWorld and
archive.org, the latter of which I didn't know archived anything Usenet.