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  • Re: where has everyone gone?

    From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to badgolferman on Sun Jul 7 21:34:02 2024
    On 6/18/2024 5:34 PM, badgolferman wrote:
    Is this group dead now? Where are all the backgammon positions posted
    by Timothy Chow?

    I've moved over to www.bgonline.org/forums

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    Tim Chow

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  • From MK@21:1/5 to badgolferman on Sun Jul 14 22:39:39 2024
    On 6/18/2024 3:34 PM, badgolferman wrote:

    Is this group dead now? Where are all the backgammon
    positions posted by Timothy Chow?

    Technically it's not but the value of Usenet archives
    is gone or at least reduced to only a few years, after
    Google discontinued its web-based interface to Usenet
    and stopped archiving posts, which it had been doing
    since the 1980's (or more?).

    Like Tim, I'm occasionally posting in bgonline.org and
    also in dailygammon.com, where I recognize a few names
    from RGB. I guess times change...

    MK

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  • From Timothy Chow@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jul 30 08:06:07 2024
    On 7/15/2024 12:39 AM, MK wrote:
    Technically it's not but the value of Usenet archives
    is gone or at least reduced to only a few years, after
    Google discontinued its web-based interface to Usenet
    and stopped archiving posts, which it had been doing
    since the 1980's (or more?).

    Google didn't exist until the late 1990s, but at some point I
    think it acquired DejaNews, which had been archiving a lot of
    Usenet up to that point.

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    Tim Chow

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