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Re: Ansible 438 -- January 2024

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From: garym@mcgath.com (Gary McGath)
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Subject: Re: Ansible 438 -- January 2024
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 06:25:09 -0500
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by: Gary McGath - Wed, 3 Jan 2024 11:25 UTC

On 1/2/24 12:00 PM, John Hall wrote:
> In message <mjc8pitn651b7fu6fccfnsc9lb4o47os5v@4ax.com>, David Langford
> <ansible@cix.co.uk> writes
> <snip>
>> RANDOM FANDOM II. _James D. Nicoll_ reports that Google, 'having done
>> all the damage to it they can', is cancelling its access to Usenet on
>> 22 February. _Ansible_ is still posted monthly (not via Google) to
>> Usenet rec.arts.sf.fandom and uk.people.sf-fans, but will it soon be
>> time to stop?
>
> I hope not.

The media love to declare that anything which Google doesn't use is
dead. There was a similar burst of claims about RSS when Google dropped
its aggregator.
--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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