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

VanguardLH wrote:

> 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.

The advantage of dejanews (which Google took over) is that it's available
to everyone, not just the Usenet cognoscenti, and it provides the full
thread (not just the <http://al.howardknight.net/> search based on a known
Message-ID), and it requires no account, no cost, and only a web browser
which means it works for everyone on every platform, and the retention was
decades, and it only required basic search terms anyone could use and it
provides a unique URL to the article (or thread) that anyone else can read
years from now to benefit.

Even to the Usenet cognoscenti, as you seem to be aware, it's always the
ones who never search before they post who claim this loss is a good thing.

What we need now is a good replacement Usenet-only websearchable engine.