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On 19/04/2016 18:30, Random832 wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016, at 12:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> It's worse than that. There are many other places that mirror this group,
>> such as gmane, Activestate, bytes.com, gossamer-threads.com, and of
>> course
>> Google Groups.
>
> Google groups goes through Usenet, and would be affected equally by any
> solution to the usenet issue.
>
> Gmane passes posts through normal email submission. It'd be mildly
> irritating to have to be subscribed to be able to post through gmane,
> but it wouldn't be the first group to have that requirement.
>
> Gossamer threads and Activestate both appear to use the mailing list
> archives and not allow posting.
>
> Bytes.com appears to mirror *stack overflow*, not this list, unless I'm
> missing something.

Just to be clear: GMane does some kind of header-munging to post on its 
users' behalf; GGroups comes in through usenet.

Very little is actually going to change. Really. (I'm almost sorry now I 
gave the explanation...). We're not disconnecting from Usenet, or GMane 
or anything else.

TJG