On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:27:12 -0000 (UTC), Bring Back Jason Todd <bbjt@bbjt.com> 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.
>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.
>Why is Google Groups support for Usenet ending?
>Over the last several years, legitimate activity in text-based Usenet groups has
>declined significantly because users have moved to more modern technologies and
>formats such as social media and web-based forums. Much of the content being
>disseminated via Usenet today is binary (non-text) file sharing, which Google
>Groups does not support, as well as spam."
>https://support.google.com/groups?p=usenet
[end quote]

On 12/14/2023 2:57 PM, D wrote:

>> Over the last several years, legitimate activity in text-based
Usenet groups has
>> declined significantly because users have moved to more modern
technologies and
>> formats such as social media and web-based forums.

That is absolutely correct.

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:47:15 +0000, Anonymous <nobody@yamn.paranoici.org> wrote:
>>> Over the last several years, legitimate activity in text-based
>Usenet groups has
>>> declined significantly because users have moved to more modern
>technologies and
>>> formats such as social media and web-based forums.
>That is absolutely correct.

googlegroups is the number one spammer in all of usenet history,
therefore googlegroups does not support spam and will shut down
the gargantuan google2news servers effective midnight 2024-2-15;
usually when something bad is taken away, something worse takes
its place . . . surely they've planned well in advance for this

On Fri, 15 Dec 2023 01:47:15 +0000, Anonymous <nobody@yamn.paranoici.org> wrote:
>>> Over the last several years, legitimate activity in text-based
>Usenet groups has
>>> declined significantly because users have moved to more modern
>technologies and
>>> formats such as social media and web-based forums.
>That is absolutely correct.

googlegroups is the number one spammer in all of usenet history,
therefore googlegroups does not support spam and will shut down
the gargantuan google2news servers effective midnight 2024-2-15;
usually when something bad is taken away, something worse takes
its place . . . surely they've planned well in advance for this

On 14 Dec 2023, D <nobody@yamn.paranoici.org> posted some
news:20231214.225714.97fd46ad@yamn.paranoici.org:

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:27:12 -0000 (UTC), Bring Back Jason Todd
> <bbjt@bbjt.com> 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.
>>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. Why is
>>Google Groups support for Usenet ending? Over the last several years,
>>legitimate activity in text-based Usenet groups has declined
>>significantly because users have moved to more modern technologies and
>> formats such as social media and web-based forums. Much of the
>>content being disseminated via Usenet today is binary (non-text) file
>>sharing, which Google Groups does not support, as well as spam."
>>https://support.google.com/groups?p=usenet
> [end quote]

google doesn't want to have their archives filled with criticism of their
anti-Trump policies and efforts. That's basically what it amounts to.