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| From | Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: RSS feed for this group. |
| Date | 2014-02-25 23:58 -0500 |
| Organization | National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Message-ID | <alpine.LNX.2.02.1402252354510.11311@darkstar.example.org> (permalink) |
| References | <7e765ef1-a08d-4b18-958c-41a61c8fbac7@googlegroups.com> |
On Sun, 9 Feb 2014, Trent Eickmeyer wrote: > https://groups.google.com/forum/feed/comp.misc/topics/rss.xml?num=50 > > I thought this might help some of the /. refugees. > Don't encourage people to use google for access to Usenet, they have done enough damage. The famous thread where Linus Torvald announces Linux has been vandalized by endless people who think it's "cool" to be part of a 20 year old thread. They are helped along because the last time google changed their interface they left in the bug that allows replies to messages older than 30 days. That may work in their groups, where everything is on one webpage, but it is annoying and destructive to Usenet. I'm not even sure the posters who reply to old messages know what they are doing. Dejanws was useful as an archive of Usenet, and when google took it over, initially that was valuable. But they are a constant drag on what's left, and much of the time it seems like one can't even do proper searches of the archive. Michael
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RSS feed for this group. Trent Eickmeyer <trente@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 08:40 -0800
Re: RSS feed for this group. Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-25 23:58 -0500
Re: RSS feed for this group. Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-02-26 07:42 +0000
Re: RSS feed for this group. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-02-26 17:25 +0000
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