• Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions

    From Indira@3:770/3 to All on Fri Feb 23 10:24:21 2024
    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.raspberry-pi
    Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions.
    Historical content remains viewable.

    An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique
    URL will need to be located that allows people to search before posting to
    the c.s.r-p. newsgroup & which allows unique references to recent articles.
    --
    You can probably all safely remove your Google Groups filters now.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to Indira on Fri Feb 23 09:18:04 2024
    On 23/02/2024 04:54, Indira wrote:
    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.raspberry-pi
    Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.

    We can be thankful for small mercies.

    An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique URL *will need* to be located that allows people to search before posting to the c.s.r-p. newsgroup & which allows unique references to recent articles.


    Will need?

    I don't believe I have searched a Usenet archive ever.



    --
    New Socialism consists essentially in being seen to have your heart in
    the right place whilst your head is in the clouds and your hand is in
    someone else's pocket.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Chris Green@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Fri Feb 23 09:57:28 2024
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 23/02/2024 04:54, Indira wrote:
    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.raspberry-pi
    Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.

    We can be thankful for small mercies.

    An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique URL *will need* to be located that allows people to search before posting to
    the c.s.r-p. newsgroup & which allows unique references to recent articles.


    Will need?

    I don't believe I have searched a Usenet archive ever.

    Way back before Google took it over DejaNews was actually very useful sometimes, Google made it more and more useless as time went on.

    --
    Chris Green
    ยท

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Ahem A Rivet's Shot@3:770/3 to Chris Green on Fri Feb 23 10:52:22 2024
    On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:57:28 +0000
    Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

    Way back before Google took it over DejaNews was actually very useful sometimes, Google made it more and more useless as time went on.

    Yes can the raw data be retrieved to recreate DejaNews ? I'd throw
    some storage and bandwidth into hosting a read-only mirror.

    --
    Steve O'Hara-Smith
    Odds and Ends at http://www.sohara.org/
    For forms of government let fools contest
    Whate're is best administered is best - Alexander Pope

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to Chris Green on Fri Feb 23 10:51:21 2024
    On 23/02/2024 09:57, Chris Green wrote:
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 23/02/2024 04:54, Indira wrote:
    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.raspberry-pi
    Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions.
    Historical content remains viewable.

    We can be thankful for small mercies.

    An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique >>> URL *will need* to be located that allows people to search before posting to
    the c.s.r-p. newsgroup & which allows unique references to recent articles. >>

    Will need?

    I don't believe I have searched a Usenet archive ever.

    Way back before Google took it over DejaNews was actually very useful sometimes, Google made it more and more useless as time went on.

    Well, yes. Usenet is now a quiet little niche in the internet. I like
    quiet and little

    --
    For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and
    wrong.

    H.L.Mencken

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Joerg Walther@3:770/3 to Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Fri Feb 23 14:06:41 2024
    Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

    Yes can the raw data be retrieved to recreate DejaNews ? I'd throw
    some storage and bandwidth into hosting a read-only mirror.

    There actually are a couple of pay servers which have 12 to 15 years
    retention for text newsgroups and you probably would only need a one
    month membership to get what you need. As for the older articles...

    -jw-

    --

    And now for something completely different...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Charlie Gibbs@3:770/3 to Chris Green on Fri Feb 23 18:27:09 2024
    On 2024-02-23, Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 23/02/2024 04:54, Indira wrote:

    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.raspberry-pi
    Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions.
    Historical content remains viewable.

    We can be thankful for small mercies.

    +1

    An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique >>> URL *will need* to be located that allows people to search before posting to
    the c.s.r-p. newsgroup & which allows unique references to recent articles. >>
    Will need?

    I don't believe I have searched a Usenet archive ever.

    Way back before Google took it over DejaNews was actually very useful sometimes, Google made it more and more useless as time went on.

    That's a standard technique when you're trying to kill something.
    Make it more and more useless until nobody wants / cares about /
    can use it anymore; then when you do kill it it won't be missed.

    The local phone company used that technique to get rid of hard-copy
    telephone directories. They split the white pages into multiple
    books, each of which covered a subset of the local area so you'd
    have to thumb through several volumes to find what you were looking
    for. To add insult to injury, each volume included a complete
    copy of the business pages - an incredible show of redundancy.
    A couple of two-inch volumes turned into a foot-high stack, most of
    which I would transfer directly from my doorstep to the recycle bin.

    --
    /~\ Charlie Gibbs | The Internet is like a big city:
    \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | it has plenty of bright lights and
    X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | excitement, but also dark alleys
    / \ if you read it the right way. | down which the unwary get mugged.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Indira@3:770/3 to Charlie Gibbs on Sat Feb 24 01:51:17 2024
    Charlie Gibbs wrote:

    We can be thankful for small mercies.

    +1

    -1

    There was merit in having a Usenet-only keyword search engine that
    was provided by dejanews (which Google took over) and which was available
    to everyone with just a web browser, and which only searched Usenet and
    which cost nothing which allowed the user to read the entire thread - not
    just one post like Howard Knight does - and which allowed users to
    reference the post to others who also had only a web browser,
    etc).

    If you want to search before you post, then there will probably be new
    engines that come up, although none with the retention that Google had.

    It has always been the case that the worst posters to Usenet were
    never ones who searched before they posted anything, and for those
    people, there was never (and will never) be a utility to a search engine.

    For example
    http://comp.sys.raspberry-pi.narkive.com

    But that web site by David Cavion is no longer maintained once he got a full-time job and now has no time to maintain it.

    The Usenet-only replacement search engine needs to be free to all, with
    just a browser, not needing an account, and having infinite retention.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Computer Nerd Kev@3:770/3 to Indira on Sat Feb 24 10:16:33 2024
    Indira <indira@ghandi.net> wrote:

    There was merit in having a Usenet-only keyword search engine that
    was provided by dejanews (which Google took over) and which was available
    to everyone with just a web browser, and which only searched Usenet and
    which cost nothing which allowed the user to read the entire thread - not just one post like Howard Knight does - and which allowed users to
    reference the post to others who also had only a web browser,
    etc).

    If you want to search before you post, then there will probably be new engines that come up, although none with the retention that Google had.

    It has always been the case that the worst posters to Usenet were
    never ones who searched before they posted anything, and for those
    people, there was never (and will never) be a utility to a search engine.

    For example
    http://comp.sys.raspberry-pi.narkive.com

    But that web site by David Cavion is no longer maintained once he got a full-time job and now has no time to maintain it.

    The Usenet-only replacement search engine needs to be free to all, with
    just a browser, not needing an account, and having infinite retention.

    Oh boy, not only are you multi-posting the OP to different groups
    (akin to what annoying Google Groups users used to do), but you're
    copy-pasting your own responses in other groups down in the thread!
    Instead of furthering this insanity by doubling up my own posts,
    I'll just put the Message-ID of where I replied in
    comp.periphs.printers:
    <65d93074@news.ausics.net>

    Please learn to cross-post if you wish to discuss things in
    multiple groups. Though this topic is probably best restrained to
    just one group where discussion of Usenet itself is intended.

    --
    __ __
    #_ < |\| |< _# | Note: I won't see posts made from Google Groups |

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Indira@3:770/3 to Computer Nerd Kev on Sat Feb 24 07:12:45 2024
    Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

    I'll just put the Message-ID of where I replied in
    comp.periphs.printers:
    <65d93074@news.ausics.net>

    You're wrong as each has different information, but this will help
    anyone find your post about using a standard duckduckgo server using
    that message id in these message-id search engines.

    http://usenet.ovh/index.php?article=ual
    http://news.chmurka.net/mid.php
    http://al.howardknight.net/

    But the problem isn't using the :site of Google or DuckDuckGo.

    The problem is finding a purpose-built Usenet-specific search engine that anyone can use on any platform without needing to make their own engine.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From David Goodwin@3:770/3 to All on Sun Feb 25 17:02:35 2024
    In article <20240223105222.5aa8f74676366fdf20290df7@eircom.net>, steveo@eircom.net says...

    On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 09:57:28 +0000
    Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

    Way back before Google took it over DejaNews was actually very useful sometimes, Google made it more and more useless as time went on.

    Yes can the raw data be retrieved to recreate DejaNews ? I'd throw
    some storage and bandwidth into hosting a read-only mirror.


    At about 2.6TB uncompressed, this data certainly *appears* to have come
    from within Google somehow based on having a look at the path headers on
    a few articles:
    https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From David Goodwin@3:770/3 to All on Sun Feb 25 17:04:55 2024
    In article <ur9nsc$f035$1@dont-email.me>, tnp@invalid.invalid says...

    On 23/02/2024 04:54, Indira wrote:
    https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.raspberry-pi
    Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.

    We can be thankful for small mercies.

    An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique URL *will need* to be located that allows people to search before posting to
    the c.s.r-p. newsgroup & which allows unique references to recent articles.


    Will need?

    I don't believe I have searched a Usenet archive ever.

    Depends on what you're doing I guess. As bad as the UI has been in
    recent years I've found the Google Groups archive an invaluable research
    tool in the absence of any kind of full-text search for the internet
    archives wayback machine.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)
  • From Indira@3:770/3 to David Goodwin on Sun Feb 25 09:58:07 2024
    David Goodwin wrote:

    I don't believe I have searched a Usenet archive ever.

    Depends on what you're doing I guess. As bad as the UI has been in
    recent years I've found the Google Groups archive an invaluable research
    tool in the absence of any kind of full-text search for the internet
    archives wayback machine.

    +1

    The people who never searched before posting were the ones who would ask
    the very same questions which had been answered a million times prior.

    And, sure, the Google Groups dejanews implementation of the
    no-account-needed web based Usenet-only search wasn't all that great
    compared to the normal Google search engine - but it was the best we had.

    This is all we've got now, that's updated, as far as I know, where
    what would be nice is if people who know more add to the list.

    No-account-needed web-paged general-use Usenet-only search engines:
    <https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.raspberry-pi> deprecated 22Feb24
    <https://comp.sys.raspberry-pi.narkive.com/> David Cavion's site
    <https://pi-dach.dorfdsl.de/rocksolid/search.php>
    <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/thread.php?group=comp.sys.raspberry-pi>
    <https://archive.org/details/usenethistorical>
    <https://usenetarchives.com/>

    Message-ID search engines (which aren't even close to the same thing).
    <http://al.howardknight.net/>
    <http://news.chmurka.net/mid.php>
    <http://usenet.ovh/index.php?article=ual>
    <https://www.novabbs.com/SEARCH/search_nocem.php>

    If you know of something better for a web based no-account-needed
    Usenet-only search engine, please add it to the list above.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)