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On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 11:06:48 -0500, "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> wrote:
>W Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:39:32 +0100 (CET), D napisal:
>> google groups users may not realize the fundamental differences between
>> the autonomous/decentralized usenet, versus the proprietary/centralized
>> alphabet/google corporation; the isolation of google groups from usenet
>> provides incentive for multitudes of google's users to seek free usenet
>> news servers, apps, and websites, that will help them to stay connected
>
>I'm a google groupie, where I had a free usernet news server.
>And I had a free lookup engine that went back to the dawn of time.
>Now what?
>Paganini stinks (as you must already know by now) because of its
>many crazy badword and random badurl and poison group filters.
>And a web browser is no longer the portal for posting to usernet groups.
>What free news server do you recommend most google groupies migrate to.
>And what free long-standing usernet lookup engine for do you recommend?

i've been using remailers exclusively for posting to usenet newsgroups
since 1998 . . . but for more traditional free nntp news servers which
allow posting, sybershock's sysadmin posted this timely witticism with
helpful link to "free usenet servers" (https://sybershock.com/#usenet):

>Path: n...!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
>From: SugarBug <3883@sugar.bug>
>Newsgroups: eternal-september.talk, alt.free.newsservers, alt.september
>Subject: Looming Groupocalypse : The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh!
>Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:38:43 -0600
>Organization: sybershock.com Baggy Jeans Mafia
>Message-ID: <1fa0133234a88bf23788c8d0ea360913$1@sybershock.com>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Injection-Info: i2pn2.org;
> logging-data="2944723"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org";
> posting-account="yZybWhCr+jI4C3MuGpPde+DhCwsjQrVZrsCOigcx7fM";
>X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0
>Xref: n... eternal-september.talk:1545 alt.free.newsservers:6379 alt.september:5
>
> A Brain Candy Rant for Tin Hatters and Texters. (SyberShock!)
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Looming Groupocalypse : The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh!
> Tuesday, September 11088, 1993
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> List of Free Usenet Servers: https://sybershock.com/#usenet
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Usenet is dead.
> Usenet has always been dead.
> Usenet is dying.
> Usenet is always dying.
> Live with it.
> Long live Usenet!
> Google Groups has provided Usenet access for many years
> since Google acquired DejaNews 22 years ago, circa 2002.
> For some of these years Google has allowed a non-stop spam
> flooding, denial of service attack against the Usenet
> network. Google and other large Usenet providers have
> suborned a non-stop flood of zillions and bazillions of spam
> articles over the years, making newsgroups unusable for many
> end-users, causing much exodus from the Usenet network. Some
> believe that this was not incompetence or negligence, but
> intentional malice disguised as incompetence and negligence.
> Pretending to serve a network while undermining it in deed
> comports with the principle of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."
> Some are firmly convinced this is the real cause of the spam.
> A recent anti-spam campaign got a lot of people breathing
> down Google's neck. Rather than end the flooding and denial
> of service that it caused, Google has decided to stop
> peering Usenet feeds altogether. Some have opined that this
> is like amputating a leg to remedy a ingrown toenail. Google
> users will lose Usenet posting access without recourse.
> In February Google is pulling the plug. A large number of
> Google users will no longer be able to access Usenet. Those
> users will need to find some other way to access Usenet
> newsgroups. I like to think of it as 'unplugment day'.
> Some posters in the Usenet have been opining that it will
> be an apocalyptic event similar to Eternal September when
> hordes of AOL users were unleashed on Usenet decades ago.
> Since the influx of ISP users decimated politeness on the
> Usenet, it is said that September of 1993 never ended.
> Usenetizens still call this era the 'Eternal September.'
> Now a horde of Google Groups users will be potentially
> unleashed on the other Usenet service providers, especially
> the free providers. A swarm of new signups is expected. Some
> free Usenet providers are already dealing with a spike in
> new registrations.
> That cutoff date is February 22, 2024. After that time the
> Google users will no longer be able to access Usenet content.
> In Eternal September time the cutoff date will be the 11131st
> day of September, 1993.
> Since many Google users are clueless, some likely won't
> realize their Usenet access is sunset until the moment it is
> cut off. Then there is potential for a search panic as they
> try to discover why they cannot access Usenet groups via
> Google Groups. It has been jokingly called the Google Groups
> Apocalypse or the Google Groups Armageddon. Some users post
> Usenet articles counting down the days to the cutoff date.
> Some wordplay gives silly effect to these phrases:
> groupocalypse ==> group + apocalypse
> goopocalypse ==> google + apocalypse
> groupsspagheddon ==> groups + spaghetti + armageddon
> So now this ditty might make sense:
> The 'groupocalypse' looms.
> Google 'groupsspaggheddon' cometh.
> There shall be zoomer weeping,
> Karen wailing,
> and boomer gnashing of dentures.
> This is a spoof on verses from the books of Matthew and
> Revelation:
> "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire;
> so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man
> shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of
> his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do
> iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there
> shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
> "The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,
> shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping
> and wailing ..."
> "Weeping and wailing" becomes: "Zoomer weeping, Karen
> wailing ..."
> "Gnashing of teeth" becomes: "Boomer gnashing of dentures."
> I suppose that the "merchants" could spoof for spammers. Yet
> I doubt any spammers were, "made rich by her."
> Since it is the end of yet another era for Usenet, it is
> 'apocalyptic' in a lampoon way, like the end of the Usenet
> world when the month of Eternal September began. It is a
> comical, cosmological holy day, an 'apocalypse' for which we
> know the exact date of its coming. It is bombastic burlesque,
> a rampant style of humor that runs riot on Usenet.
> The impending cessation of Google Usenet peering may cause a
> chaotic scramble to find Usenet access. Or it may go hardly
> noticed, an anti-apocalyptic whimper in the night. The Google
> Groupocalypse might signal a great shift, or it may mererly
> result in less spam. That is a change I can live with.
> Whether February 22, 2024 comes in like a lion or a lamb, that
> day will always be September 11131, 1993. And one thing is
> sure: If September is eternal, then Usenet is eternal, too.
[end quote]

On 15.02.2024 um 11:06 Uhr Jan K. wrote:

> W Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:39:32 +0100 (CET), D napisal:
>
> > google groups users may not realize the fundamental differences
> > between the autonomous/decentralized usenet, versus the
> > proprietary/centralized alphabet/google corporation; the isolation
> > of google groups from usenet provides incentive for multitudes of
> > google's users to seek free usenet news servers, apps, and
> > websites, that will help them to stay connected
>
> I'm a google groupie, where I had a free usernet news server.
> And I had a free lookup engine that went back to the dawn of time.
>
> Now what?
>
> Paganini stinks (as you must already know by now) because of its
> many crazy badword and random badurl and poison group filters.
>
> And a web browser is no longer the portal for posting to usernet
> groups.

rslight exists.
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/index.php

> What free news server do you recommend most google groupies migrate
> to. And what free long-standing usernet lookup engine for do you
> recommend?

solani.org, eternal-september.org

As a reader, try Betterbird, Thunderbird, Epyrus, Claws Mail etc.

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Subject	Author
Re: google groups users	Jan K.
Re: google groups users	D
Re: google groups users	Marco Moock
Re: google groups users	Sqwertz

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