Re: Death of news.mozilla.org

PietB wrote on 2/4/21 9:20 pm:
> Ken Whiton wrote:
>> he Firefox and Thunderbird support newsgroups can be found on
>> many Usenet news servers, but they're not officially distributed to
>> Usenet.  Some renegade system somewhere is operating what's called a
>> "suck feed", pulling most m.s.f and m.s.t posts from news.mozilla.org
>> and feeding them into Usenet.
> 
> A bit of reality: some kind soul is gatewaying m.s.* posts to
> the larger Usenet.

What might have happened to the amount of SPAM the mozilla groups would 
have received if the UseNet connection had gone two-way??

The connection to Groups.Google was bad enough!

> Great idea, great service but unfortunately
> limited by Mozilla's shortsightedness that blocks posts/replies
> from being fed into their Usenet cocoon. Allowing such backfeed
> would have been a great service, thanks in particular to all the
> kind souls voluntarily helping/advising people here.
> 
> -p
> 
Thanks to all for the help given to me over the years, too!
-- 
Daniel

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