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  • World Lottery Championship RIP?

    From nigel@21:1/5 to Ion Saliu on Sat Dec 16 16:13:00 2023
    Ion Saliu wrote:
    �Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support
    new Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new
    content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of
    historical data will still be supported as it is done today.�


    If that is correct, it drives a coach and horses through the current WLC
    format because some participants posted their entries via Google Groups,
    and it was deemed the arbiter of whether entries were posted on time, or
    even posted at all.

    If a Championship is organised elsewhere from usenet, if it requires identification or verification via mobile phone or 64-bit browsers to
    access, I'm afraid I will pass.

    However I'd be interested in learning of other lottery discussion forums
    that meet my criteria, particularly if some of the participants have a
    working knowledge of statistics and probability,

    Nigel

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  • From Marmaduke Jinks@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 17 09:35:04 2023
    "nigel" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    Ion Saliu wrote:
    �Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support
    new Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of historical data will still be supported as it is done today.�


    If that is correct, it drives a coach and horses through the current WLC format because some participants posted their entries via Google Groups,
    and it was deemed the arbiter of whether entries were posted on time, or
    even posted at all.

    If a Championship is organised elsewhere from usenet, if it requires identification or verification via mobile phone or 64-bit browsers to
    access, I'm afraid I will pass.

    However I'd be interested in learning of other lottery discussion forums
    that meet my criteria, particularly if some of the participants have a working knowledge of statistics and probability,

    Nigel

    Oh. I have an account with eternal september. It's free. Hardly ever used Google Groups.

    Some people use Thunderbird as their mail client. I have that but use an
    old Outlook Express copy for reading/writing. https://www.eternal-september.org/

    MJ

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  • From nigel@21:1/5 to Ion Saliu on Mon Dec 18 13:14:20 2023
    Ion Saliu wrote:


    https://groups.google.com/g/gamblingscience


    Sadly, I wouldn't be able to contribute there unless someone can tell me
    how to validate my Google ID without a mobile phone. Google Help
    certainly can't.

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  • From Marmaduke Jinks@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 19 09:48:36 2023
    "nigel" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    Ion Saliu wrote:


    https://groups.google.com/g/gamblingscience


    Sadly, I wouldn't be able to contribute there unless someone can tell me
    how to validate my Google ID without a mobile phone. Google Help certainly can't.

    I can't find that group called gamblingscience on usenet anyway.

    If Google aren't allowing posts then wouldn't it be redundant to to go to Google Groups?

    Not sure if you're using an iPad but there is a newsreader for Usenet on the Applestore called Newstap. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/newstap-usenet-newsreader/id292410356

    In one of the other groups someone wrote: we use our iPads with Newstap and connect via Eternal September.

    MJ

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