Re: soc.Culture.German -- was this group functioning before Feb 22 ?
HenHanna <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | soc.culture.german,news.groups,alt.culture.usenet |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 4/9/2024 11:28 PM, Joshua Kreitzer wrote: > On 4/9/2024 2:56 PM, HenHanna wrote: >> On 4/5/2024 1:12 PM, Kyonshi wrote: >>> On 4/5/2024 9:30 PM, HenHanna wrote: >>>> >>>> was this group functioning before Feb 22 ? >>>> >>>> >>>> https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german >>> >>> at one point for sure >> >> >> Yes, but how recently ? > > From what I can see on my news server, which goes back to 2014, > soc.culture.german was, throughout that period, filled with mostly spam > and off-topic postings, with rare exceptions. > > I am sure there was a time when the newsgroup had a higher quality of > postings, but I don't know when that would have been. I suppose one > could find it through Google Groups, but one would have to click back > through hundreds of pages of threads, one page of 30 threads at a time, > to find when that was. > > The newsgroup was "functioning" before Feb. 22 in the sense that posts > were being received and transmitted, but not in the sense that any > significant portion of the posts were about Germany or German culture. > > -- > Joshua Kreitzer > [email protected] i get the feeling that Soc.Culture.French was more active.