Re: Looming Groupocalypse : The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh!

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:38:43 -0600, SugarBug <[email protected]> wrote:  
>  A Brain Candy Rant for Tin Hatters and Texters. (SyberShock!) 
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>  Looming Groupocalypse : The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh!
>  Tuesday, September 11088, 1993
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>  List of Free Usenet Servers: https://sybershock.com/#usenet  
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>  Usenet is dead.  
>  Usenet has always been dead.
>  Usenet is dying.  
>  Usenet is always dying.
>  Live with it. 
>  Long live Usenet!
>  Google Groups has provided Usenet access for many years 
>  since Google acquired DejaNews 22 years ago, circa 2002.  
>  For some of these years Google has allowed a non-stop spam
>  flooding, denial of service attack against the Usenet 
>  network. Google and other large Usenet providers have
>  suborned a non-stop flood of zillions and bazillions of spam  
>  articles over the years, making newsgroups unusable for many
>  end-users, causing much exodus from the Usenet network. Some   
>  believe that this was not incompetence or negligence, but  
>  intentional malice disguised as incompetence and negligence. 
>  Pretending to serve a network while undermining it in deed 
>  comports with the principle of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."   
>  Some are firmly convinced this is the real cause of the spam.
>    A recent anti-spam campaign got a lot of people breathing 
>  down Google's neck. Rather than end the flooding and denial 
>  of service that it caused, Google has decided to stop
>  peering Usenet feeds altogether. Some have opined that this  
>  is like amputating a leg to remedy a ingrown toenail. Google
>  users will lose Usenet posting access without recourse. 
>    In February Google is pulling the plug. A large number of 
>  Google users will no longer be able to access Usenet. Those 
>  users will need to find some other way to access Usenet 
>  newsgroups. I like to think of it as 'unplugment day'.
>  Some posters in the Usenet have been opining that it will    
>  be an apocalyptic event similar to Eternal September when 
>  hordes of AOL users were unleashed on Usenet decades ago. 
>  Since the influx of ISP users decimated politeness on the  
>  Usenet, it is said that September of 1993 never ended.
>  Usenetizens still call this era the 'Eternal September.' 
>    Now a horde of Google Groups users will be potentially  
>  unleashed on the other Usenet service providers, especially
>  the free providers. A swarm of new signups is expected. Some 
>  free Usenet providers are already dealing with a spike in
>  new registrations.
>    That cutoff date is February 22, 2024. After that time the
>  Google users will no longer be able to access Usenet content.
>  In Eternal September time the cutoff date will be the 11131st 
>  day of September, 1993. 
>    Since many Google users are clueless, some likely won't
>  realize their Usenet access is sunset until the moment it is  
>  cut off. Then there is potential for a search panic as they
>  try to discover why they cannot access Usenet groups via  
>  Google Groups. It has been jokingly called the Google Groups
>  Apocalypse or the Google Groups Armageddon. Some users post   
>  Usenet articles counting down the days to the cutoff date.  
>    Some wordplay gives silly effect to these phrases:
>    groupocalypse      ==>   group + apocalypse    
>    goopocalypse       ==>   google + apocalypse 
>    groupsspagheddon   ==>   groups + spaghetti + armageddon  
>  So now this ditty might make sense:
>    The 'groupocalypse' looms. 
>    Google 'groupsspaggheddon' cometh. 
>    There shall be zoomer weeping, 
>    Karen wailing,
>    and boomer gnashing of dentures. 
>  This is a spoof on verses from the books of Matthew and 
>  Revelation:
>  "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; 
>  so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man
>  shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of  
>  his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do  
>  iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there
>  shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."   
>  "The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, 
>  shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping
>  and wailing ..." 
>  "Weeping and wailing" becomes: "Zoomer weeping, Karen  
>  wailing ..."  
>  "Gnashing of teeth" becomes: "Boomer gnashing of dentures."
>  I suppose that the "merchants" could spoof for spammers. Yet 
>  I doubt any spammers were, "made rich by her."
>    Since it is the end of yet another era for Usenet, it is 
>  'apocalyptic' in a lampoon way, like the end of the Usenet
>  world when the month of Eternal September began. It is a 
>  comical, cosmological holy day, an 'apocalypse' for which we 
>  know the exact date of its coming. It is bombastic burlesque,
>  a rampant style of humor that runs riot on Usenet.  
>    The impending cessation of Google Usenet peering may cause a
>  chaotic scramble to find Usenet access. Or it may go hardly
>  noticed, an anti-apocalyptic whimper in the night. The Google 
>  Groupocalypse might signal a great shift, or it may mererly  
>  result in less spam. That is a change I can live with.  
>    Whether February 22, 2024 comes in like a lion or a lamb, that 
>  day will always be September 11131, 1993. And one thing is 
>  sure: If September is eternal, then Usenet is eternal, too. 
  
excellent! (seems deja was acquired by google in 2001)  
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=deja+12+february+2001+google