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  • Re: soc.Culture.German -- was this group functioning before Feb 22 ?

    From D@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Fri Apr 5 22:09:52 2024
    On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 12:30:24 -0700, HenHanna <[email protected]> wrote:
    was this group functioning before Feb 22 ? >https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german

    "groups.google.com" shut down their usenet gateway shortly after 7 a.m. googleplex (pacific standard) time thursday 22 february 2024 ... r.i.p.

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 5 12:30:24 2024
    XPost: soc.culture.german, alt.culture.usenet

    was this group functioning before Feb 22 ?


    https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Kyonshi on Tue Apr 9 12:56:53 2024
    XPost: soc.culture.german, alt.culture.usenet

    On 4/5/2024 1:12 PM, Kyonshi wrote:
    On 4/5/2024 9:30 PM, HenHanna wrote:

    was this group functioning  before Feb 22 ?


    https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german

    at one point for sure


    Yes, but how recently ?

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  • From Joshua Kreitzer@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Wed Apr 10 01:28:14 2024
    XPost: soc.culture.german, alt.culture.usenet

    On 4/9/2024 2:56 PM, HenHanna wrote:
    On 4/5/2024 1:12 PM, Kyonshi wrote:
    On 4/5/2024 9:30 PM, HenHanna wrote:

    was this group functioning  before Feb 22 ?


    https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german

    at one point for sure


      Yes,   but  how  recently ?

    From what I can see on my news server, which goes back to 2014, soc.culture.german was, throughout that period, filled with mostly spam
    and off-topic postings, with rare exceptions.

    I am sure there was a time when the newsgroup had a higher quality of
    postings, but I don't know when that would have been. I suppose one
    could find it through Google Groups, but one would have to click back
    through hundreds of pages of threads, one page of 30 threads at a time,
    to find when that was.

    The newsgroup was "functioning" before Feb. 22 in the sense that posts
    were being received and transmitted, but not in the sense that any
    significant portion of the posts were about Germany or German culture.

    --
    Joshua Kreitzer
    [email protected]

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Joshua Kreitzer on Wed Apr 10 15:30:53 2024
    On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 01:28:14 -0500, Joshua Kreitzer <[email protected]> wrote:
    snip

    From what I can see on my news server, which goes back to 2014,
    soc.culture.german was, throughout that period, filled with mostly spam
    and off-topic postings, with rare exceptions.
    I am sure there was a time when the newsgroup had a higher quality of >postings, but I don't know when that would have been. I suppose one
    could find it through Google Groups, but one would have to click back
    through hundreds of pages of threads, one page of 30 threads at a time,
    to find when that was.
    The newsgroup was "functioning" before Feb. 22 in the sense that posts
    were being received and transmitted, but not in the sense that any >significant portion of the posts were about Germany or German culture.

    using 40tude dialog and the "news.blueworldhosting.com" server, which
    has long retention (currently 136235 articles, mostly after 7/1/2003)
    shows about three-fourths (~75%) of these articles were cross-posted,
    and almost half (64626, ~47%) of all articles were posted from google
    groups; it's typical for active newsgroups to get spammed and trolled

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  • From HenHanna@21:1/5 to Joshua Kreitzer on Sat May 18 23:55:44 2024
    XPost: soc.culture.german, alt.culture.usenet

    On 4/9/2024 11:28 PM, Joshua Kreitzer wrote:
    On 4/9/2024 2:56 PM, HenHanna wrote:
    On 4/5/2024 1:12 PM, Kyonshi wrote:
    On 4/5/2024 9:30 PM, HenHanna wrote:

    was this group functioning  before Feb 22 ?


    https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german

    at one point for sure


       Yes,   but  how  recently ?

    From what I can see on my news server, which goes back to 2014, soc.culture.german was, throughout that period, filled with mostly spam
    and off-topic postings, with rare exceptions.

    I am sure there was a time when the newsgroup had a higher quality of postings, but I don't know when that would have been. I suppose one
    could find it through Google Groups, but one would have to click back
    through hundreds of pages of threads, one page of 30 threads at a time,
    to find when that was.

    The newsgroup was "functioning" before Feb. 22 in the sense that posts
    were being received and transmitted, but not in the sense that any significant portion of the posts were about Germany or German culture.

    --
    Joshua Kreitzer
    [email protected]


    i get the feeling that Soc.Culture.French was more active.

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