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23rd Jul 2018, 12:55 am | #1 |
Dekatron
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Google archive of USENET Newsgroup "uk.telecom"
I hope this post is OK with the mods, it concerns a massive archive of telecom related posts going back a quarter of a century that may be in jeopardy.
Even those that have no idea what USENET is, will probably have encountered Google’s Web archive of Newsgroup posts, particularly when doing a Google search for telecom related terms. It looks like this, a thread from nearly 20 years ago in "uk.telecom.mobile" https://groups.google.com/d/msg/uk.t...4/uHbFLkAGMfoJ In the last few days however, the general group "uk.telecom" archive has been unavailable. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/uk.telecom These USENET groups are un-moderated and there has indeed been a serious problem of credit-card fraudsters posting in this group, The irony is that 100% of this spam (all from abroad) is posted via the Google portal, so if they simply did what they said “Content in this group is now limited to view-only mode” we would have our archive of posts from the last quarter of a century back, and no ongoing spam problem. Most USENET posters, such as myself, use client software to post directly to a server, and only use the Google Groups Web service as an archive to view old posts.
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23rd Jul 2018, 8:18 am | #2 |
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Re: Google archive of USENET Newsgroup "uk.telecom"
It doesn’t surprise me that google broke the archive. They have done a terrible job of this. Literally since they took over from Deja it has been a mess.
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27th Jul 2018, 10:51 am | #3 |
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Re: Google archive of USENET Newsgroup "uk.telecom"
This has been raised by UK Usenet Control on the Google Support Forums. If you would like to support the requests for the uk.telecom newsgroup to at least be archived please join at:
https://productforums.google.com/for...ps/aNcX-CWRBhE |
27th Jul 2018, 11:34 pm | #4 | |
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Re: Google archive of USENET Newsgroup "uk.telecom"
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Before that, the stats on this page were all nulled out https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/uk.telecom Now they look normal Also, notice the placeholder "Group email", all the Usnet groups on the Google platform have one in that form. I doubt if that would have been helpful in the discussion, but I emailed Charles about it, just in case.
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