On Fri, 16 Sept 2022 at 18:51, Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org> wrote:

>
> My current boss was a news admin at Dejanews and was there during
> their end days.  I was the sysadmin for the datacenter (SMARTNAP) that
> DejaNews was co-lo'd in.  Everyone wanted to peer with my news server
> since it fed directly into Dejanews' stuff which was a couple of racks
> down from my stuff.
>
> Google bought Deja and ruined it.


I knew the head sysadmin from Dejanews very well and I remember his story
about them being bought out by Google.  Google flew in a bunch of engineers
with a bunch of disks, imaged the whole database over a weekend, and then
fired everyone.  Good times.

-Henry