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Re: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

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Post by u801e »

pferde wrote: post #161
rleigh wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I joined a couple of years back, but came away disappointed. All the groups I followed 20 years back are pale shadows of their former selves, filled with spam. And most of those were big in the day and included the comp.lang.c|c++ and a few of the comp.os groups. There's still a need for usenet, and I'd love to participate if there was anyone worth talking to. But it needs fixing first.

comp.misc is still going strong. It has been "taken over" by people running away from Slashdot when it got "corporatized" some years back, and has some interesting discussions from time to time.

I know that misc is one of the big 7 hierarchies. I wonder if there's a misc.comp group :-)

Re: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

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Post by simonblack »

Frenziefrenz wrote: post #186
simonblack wrote: post #101

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Not really, that information gradually gets bit-rot and evaporates away to nothingness as website after website gets old and vanishes. In the early days of the Internet, I often used to Google/AltaVista/Jeeves my own name. There used to be quite a few hits. Over the years, those old hits have just faded away.

That doesn't necessarily mean they disappeared, although chances are probably better that they did than didn't. Google has increasingly started incorporating recency in how it ranks search results, so if it's more than a few years old it'll fade away from Google results regardless if it's still around or not.

if it's more than a few years old it'll fade away from Google results regardless if it's still around or not.

If you can't find it, it's effectively the same as if it doesn't exist.

Re: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

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Post by randomswede »

hvocode wrote: post #65
ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #42

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> " ... complete archive of ... Usenet " sotto voce > Usenet postings were never meant to be permanent. I was there in its heyday and nobody expected their postings to live beyond the spool expiration lifetime.

Yup. I've met a number of old farts like me who were not thrilled when what we assumed was transient had been archived. I'm not a big fan of the opt-out model of archiving where archivers just assume that they have implied consent to grab anything and everyone from everyone who hasn't explicitly said no.

This would be why pretty much every Usenet post I made from 1996 (or so) onwards had an X-No-Archive header. How many actually honoured it, I cannot say, however.

Re: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

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Post by compiler-guy »

vinger wrote: post #136
compiler-guy wrote: post #124

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Not sure why the sociologist’s desires should take precedence over the original posters’.

When pompeii was discovered we saw into homes 1,000 years ago. Without any regard to privancy for those covered in rock we broadcast their lives around the globe. I don't think we give a lot of weight to what the original publishing intent was for anything published 100, 200 years ago, why would the change in the future?

100 years ago is very different than thirty-years ago.

Re: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

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Post by fargle »

crispyambulance wrote: post #172
vlovich123 wrote: post #102

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Humor is an integral part of the human experience and connecting with someone else. Saying “ban humor” leaves the community very sterile.

> Saying “ban humor” leaves the community very sterile. ...or makes it even more hilarious. Because you really can't "ban" humor. A moderator who actually thinks that's possible will soon have humor flying over their head. Even Stackoverflow has humor despite the best efforts of the self-appointed vote-to-close police.

Poe's law

Re: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

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Post by unkulunkulu »

Minor49er wrote: post #108
vlovich123 wrote: post #102

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Humor is an integral part of the human experience and connecting with someone else. Saying “ban humor” leaves the community very sterile.

You missed the "#s" at the end of the parent post

What does it mean? (Free bashing a newb opportunity ;)

Re: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

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Post by pferde »

u801e wrote: post #191
pferde wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

comp.misc is still going strong. It has been "taken over" by people running away from Slashdot when it got "corporatized" some years back, and has some interesting discussions from time to time.

I know that misc is one of the big 7 hierarchies. I wonder if there's a misc.comp group :-)

Alas, there is no misc.comp group. There is a misc.misc group, however, but the bad news again is that comp.comp group does not exist. :)

Re: Comp.lang.c Google Group has been banned

#198

Post by rtsil »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #150
rtsil wrote: post #103

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We're not that far. I've had emails sent by google classified as spam by gmail.

> I've had emails sent by google classified as spam by gmail. Was it wrong, though? (I'm... actually, I meant it as humor but depending on how much you've opted out of it's probably true)

The emails asked me if I still want "less secure apps access" to be on for a couple of gmail accounts so I'm pretty sure they were wrong in that case.
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