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    From John Dallman@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 15 09:47:00 2023
    "Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups
    (at groups.google.com) to post content to Usenet groups, subscribe
    to Usenet groups, or view new Usenet content. You can continue to
    view and search for historical Usenet content posted before February
    22, 2024 on Google Groups.

    In addition, Google�s Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server
    and associated peering will no longer be available, meaning Google
    will not support serving new Usenet content or exchanging content
    with other NNTP servers.

    This change will not impact any non-Usenet content on Google Groups,
    including all user and organization-created groups. Most of the
    current Google Groups content is not Usenet content and will not
    be affected."

    https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

    John

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  • From LucLan@21:1/5 to John Dallman on Fri Dec 15 12:15:06 2023
    On 15.12.2023 11:47, John Dallman wrote:
    "Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups
    (at groups.google.com) to post content to Usenet groups, subscribe
    to Usenet groups, or view new Usenet content. You can continue to
    view and search for historical Usenet content posted before February
    22, 2024 on Google Groups.

    In addition, Google’s Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server
    and associated peering will no longer be available, meaning Google
    will not support serving new Usenet content or exchanging content
    with other NNTP servers.

    This change will not impact any non-Usenet content on Google Groups,
    including all user and organization-created groups. Most of the
    current Google Groups content is not Usenet content and will not
    be affected."

    https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

    John

    That is a good news. Thanks for sharing.

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  • From EricP@21:1/5 to John Dallman on Fri Dec 15 08:34:59 2023
    John Dallman wrote:
    "Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups
    (at groups.google.com) to post content to Usenet groups, subscribe
    to Usenet groups, or view new Usenet content. You can continue to
    view and search for historical Usenet content posted before February
    22, 2024 on Google Groups.

    In addition, Google�s Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server
    and associated peering will no longer be available, meaning Google
    will not support serving new Usenet content or exchanging content
    with other NNTP servers.

    This change will not impact any non-Usenet content on Google Groups,
    including all user and organization-created groups. Most of the
    current Google Groups content is not Usenet content and will not
    be affected."

    https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

    John

    The Google-sourced flood is continuing on other groups such
    as comp.os.vms which was an active group until this happened.
    You can see the occasional plea for help mixed in amongst
    the sea of spam.

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  • From Scott Lurndal@21:1/5 to EricP on Fri Dec 15 14:55:16 2023
    EricP <[email protected]> writes:
    John Dallman wrote:
    "Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups
    (at groups.google.com) to post content to Usenet groups, subscribe
    to Usenet groups, or view new Usenet content. You can continue to
    view and search for historical Usenet content posted before February
    22, 2024 on Google Groups.

    In addition, Google�s Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server
    and associated peering will no longer be available, meaning Google
    will not support serving new Usenet content or exchanging content
    with other NNTP servers.

    This change will not impact any non-Usenet content on Google Groups,
    including all user and organization-created groups. Most of the
    current Google Groups content is not Usenet content and will not
    be affected."

    https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538

    John

    The Google-sourced flood is continuing on other groups such
    as comp.os.vms which was an active group until this happened.
    You can see the occasional plea for help mixed in amongst
    the sea of spam.

    The referenced article indicates that google will terminate
    peering in february 2024.

    The downside is that the archive that they purchased when acquiring
    DejaNews will not be updated as of that date, as they won't accept
    articles from NNTP peers after that.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 21 08:54:40 2023
    Am 15.12.2023 schrieb [email protected] (John Dallman):

    As an alternative for those who used it, please see

    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mail.sendmail/c/ns2o76BuHUw

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