Re: Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions

Indira <[email protected]> wrote:
(also multi-posted to other newsgroups)

> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.freeware
> Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. 
> Historical content remains viewable.

Yay!  This was known to occur a couple months ago.

> An updated web-searchable no-login web-search archive that reports a unique
> URL will need to be located that allows people to search before they post
> to the a.c.f. newsgroup and which allows unique references to recent posts.

Nope, not needed.  One, use the search in your own NNTP client.  How
much you can search depends on the retention of your NNTP client.  Two,
modus operandi is no one bothers to search any newsgroup before posting.