On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 23:08:18 -0500, barbie gee >
wrote:

>On Sat, 7 Jun 2014, Gary wrote:
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Ophelia" wrote:
>>>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
>>>> . How many kids/teens use Usenet anyway? Not many.
>>>>
>>>> She may not be curious yet about what you are doing on here,
>>>> but believe me, the time will come!
>>>
>>> I doubt it.
>>
>> Angela might not look but some her friends probably will. If it's a
>> joking matter, it might get posted to all her school friends.
>> Whatever you write becomes public and can come back to haunt you even
>> years later. I can't believe what Bryan writes for the same reason.
>
>How are we all forgetting that "usenet" as in the old days has much of its
>content now absorbed into "Google Groups"?

We didn't forget (aside from Julie of course).

>Unless you've got x-no archive
>set,

Of which not all servers will acknowledge anyway... and there are
other sites out there collecting posts, not just google.

>some of that stuff is there and very readily searchable without
>needing a specialized newsreader like back in the old days.

Yep.