From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Steve Bellovin recounts the history of USENET
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:32:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191122213238.GC16255@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191122210645.GB37773@wopr>
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 01:06:45PM -0800, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 03:49:58PM -0500, Henry Bent wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone definitely proven that any of the contents of these files are
> > not in the searchable Google Groups interface? I don't really see any need
> > to duplicate their efforts.
>
> That data is essentially unavailable to people without Google accounts.
> Even back when it was, the search had degraded to the point where you
> could paste explicit quotes from messages and those messages would not
> be in the results page.
>
> I wholeheartedly see a need to duplicate (and surpass) their efforts. The
> Deja News service was wonderful; Google's implementation is not. Even if
> someon were to convince them to improve it, they've demonstrated they're
> not a good company to rely on for long-term availability of services
> that are not active surveillance vehicles.
Amen.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-22 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-21 12:46 Jason Stevens
2019-11-21 13:23 ` arnold
2019-11-21 13:31 ` Jason Stevens
2019-11-21 15:58 ` Leah Neukirchen
2019-11-22 20:18 ` Justin R. Andrusk
2019-11-22 20:49 ` Henry Bent
2019-11-22 21:06 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-11-22 21:32 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-11-23 1:48 ` Jason Stevens
2019-11-23 3:45 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-23 4:42 ` Warren Toomey
2019-11-22 22:21 ` Henry Bent
2019-11-23 0:00 ` Kurt H Maier
2019-11-23 1:36 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-22 23:21 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-23 1:32 ` Justin R. Andrusk
2019-11-23 22:25 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-11-21 17:22 ` Tomasz Rola
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-19 19:01 Arnold Robbins
2019-11-21 3:14 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21 3:18 ` George Michaelson
2019-11-21 3:28 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21 8:56 ` George Michaelson
2019-11-21 9:40 ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-21 9:51 ` George Michaelson
2019-11-21 11:16 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2019-11-21 3:34 ` reed
2019-11-21 3:39 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21 3:40 ` Chet Ramey
2019-11-21 3:42 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21 3:50 ` Chet Ramey
2019-11-21 3:51 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21 3:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-11-21 3:50 ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-21 3:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-11-21 3:58 ` Bakul Shah
2019-11-21 20:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-11-24 2:19 ` Michael Parson
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