[SpamCop-List] Re: Google Acquires Deja's Usenet Discussion Service, now includes SpamCop NGs

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"Pete Stephenson" <pete> wrote in message
news:pete-D4D82E.12413212022001
> In article <969hag$dq0$1>, "Sylvesterthekat"
> <me> wrote:
>
> > Why isn't it a good idea? It doesn't tend to discuss spamcop issues very
> > much so I don't see the problem.
>
> *shrugs* I don't know...any privacy concerns would be moot -- it's
> public posting, you know.
>
> I honestly don't know, but it seems a bit weird that our postings are
> now flying around the net, rather than sitting on Jeff's machine here. :P
>

Just to set the record straight, the machine and bandwidth were very kindly
donated by someone else. He doesn't actually post on here, to my knowledge,
but he wanted to help out. I've never seen the machine. If anyone needs ISP
service in Tampa Bay, though, you might give him a call.

.social tends to wander far and wide. There just tends to be stuff in there
that you wouldn't necessarily want saved forever. Yeah, it's public, but
it's always been kind of separated from Usenet. Now, if Google becomes the
de-facto standard for Usenet searching, our conversations will turn up just
like in Usenet.

It will be interesting to see if Google tries to implement a way to post to
our newsgroups when they turn on posting.

Jeff