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It's a bit sad :(
I used to participate in Usenet a lot, back in the mid 90s. Rather stupidly, I set the no archive header ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive ) on all my posts. Now I can only find myself quoted in replies. Shame, really.
Well, I didn't set the X-No-Archive header. And now there's no chance that I'll ever get elected to be President of the United States.
* I don't have anyone specific in mind, here; politicians, all of 'em.
The Google books settlement gives Google something like a monopoly on "orphaned" titles, titles that would otherwise be entirely unavailable. Whether that's justified or not is debatable.
But unless there's something I don't know, Google Groups is just one archive of usenet and anyone with enough space could create another - in fact, I seem encounter other such archives regularly in my ... Google searches.
I used to participate in Usenet a lot, back in the mid 90s. Rather stupidly, I set the no archive header ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive ) on all my posts. Now I can only find myself quoted in replies. Shame, really.
Well, I didn't set the X-No-Archive header. And now there's no chance that I'll ever get elected to be President of the United States.
He also did things like send cancels on people quoting his insulting stuff long afterwards, so they wouldn't show up with his name in Google.
I had read the rfc:s, but couldn't even imagine anyone would be so unserious at the time. Ah, innocence.
I don't know if Google still remove messages when cancels show up on Usenet, but you could try...
Edit: OK, I can't complain about the downvotes; it was a joke but it is arguably immoral to remove information.
Time to take back Usenet and build another archive independently of Google, somehow.
I used to participate in Usenet a lot, back in the mid 90s. Rather stupidly, I set the no archive header ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-No-Archive ) on all my posts. Now I can only find myself quoted in replies. Shame, really.
Well, I didn't set the X-No-Archive header. And now there's no chance that I'll ever get elected to be President of the United States.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I didn't set the X-No-Archive header. And now there's no chance that I'll ever get elected to be President of the United States.
There was this griefer mythomaniac in the Swedish groups, who sent cancels on others' messages all the time when he couldn't answer (I assume with constructed headers so it wouldn't be removed on your local server). He also did things like send cancels on people quoting his insulting stuff long afterwards, so they wouldn't show up with his name in Google. I had read the rfc:s, but couldn't even imagine anyone would b…
(For a group so enthusiastic about version control with a leader who pushed for etherpad's timeline document history, this one vote then lockin feels a bit out of character)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was this griefer mythomaniac in the Swedish groups, who sent cancels on others' messages all the time when he couldn't answer (I assume with constructed headers so it wouldn't be removed on your local server). He also did things like send cancels on people quoting his insulting stuff long afterwards, so they wouldn't show up with his name in Google. I had read the rfc:s, but couldn't even imagine anyone would b…
Sorry! - Downvote was iPhone fatfingered mistake. (For a group so enthusiastic about version control with a leader who pushed for etherpad's timeline document history, this one vote then lockin feels a bit out of character)
In the end, then, the rusting shell of Google Groups is a reminder that Google is an advertising company — not a modern-day Library of Alexandria.
I must confess to being a brainwashed Googlevangelist, but anyway... if it wasn't for Google's (lucrative) actions, maybe non-profit projects such as the Internet Archive might not have saved those magtapes in time.