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Probably some automated spam detector got it banned. Here's the ban message for posterity: https://i.imgur.com/0lFapQ1.png
"Back to safety". Gotta love corporate BS
Even I started to raise an eyebrow whenever one of these companies claims to do something for my "safety".
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First of all, thank you for making this available. However without Search functionality the utility of this archive is very limited.
Is Google indexing the content? Maybe you can search it that way.
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But if you want to find a particular post, it really depends on the retention policy of the server you use. Free ones may have a year of retention. Commercial one's have 12 years or so. The only one that I know of where one can find posts further back than that is Google groups.
astranews has comp.lang.c back to 30 June 2003.
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Not everything is deserving of being treated as historical artifacts worthy of retention. A friend has lamented that when he was in college in the late 80s, he used USENET as a way to connect with people and work through some pretty heavy emotional challenges. Retaining his personal struggles is hardly "history" - if anything, the historical value of retaining the struggles of one inconsequential person is far lower…
To a sociologist connect with people and work through some pretty heavy emotional challenges is a goodmine and insight into history.
Some fun comp.lang.c history: Dennis Ritchie posted, sharing an extremely early version of a C compiler. Richard Heathfield (well known C book author) jokingly chided Ritchie for posting something off-topic, as it was not part of ANSI C. In typical Usenet fashion, this triggered a huge thread, arguing over the appropriateness of the joke. Even Linus Torvalds got involved. Apparently Heathfield emailed Ritchie private…
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Remember when gay and lesbian bars were a thing; back when straight people steered clear of them because of the stigma? Not having the stigma is good overall, but in many places there's no longer queer-exclusive spaces. That whole segment of culture is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
Isn’t that a good thing though? This reminds me of the people complaining cochlear implants are destroying deaf culture.
Oh, Google. You never quite figured out adulthood, and now senescence is setting in.
Why?
The same thing happened last July to comp.lang.forth and comp.lang.lisp. https://support.google.com/groups/thread/61391913
"This question is locked and replying has been disabled."
Gee, lovely.
I am wondering if we could solve the current madness with arbitrary content policing by waiving copyright protection for monopolistic platforms and enforcing interoperability. Imagine if anyone was legally allowed to create their own fork of Reddit, or Google Groups, preserving the original content , and even being able to post new content through the fork, as if they did it directly. If google decided to ban some co…
It's called "common carrier immunity".
Telephone companies have had it for decades, maybe even centuries. It works great. They're not responsible for words spoken on their telephone network as long as they don't regulate that content in any way.
Section 230 simply should have offered common carrier immunity to websites when they act as common carriers. Problem solved.