On 6/4/2014 7:31 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:00:58 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure why [rfc's] Andy would have been hanging out in a Canadian
>> IRC chat channel. But hey, what do I know? Lots of things he did were
>> strange.
>
> The RFC chat room servers were hosted by a Canadian company
> (penguinpowered.ca). It has nothing to do with the nationality of the
> people using the chat rooms.
>

I know that, I used to do rfc chat and the address was
penguinpowered.ca. Travis made it sound like Andy was in a chat
populated by Canadians. LOL

>> FWIW, rfc never went away so I'm not sure what Denise means when she
>> asks if it's been re-created. Hi Denise!
>
> Maybe she means re-created in Google Groups. She may be referring to
> the period of time that Google bought DejaNews and posting was not
> possible for a year or two. (And then when Google revived the post
> feature, then all Hell broke loose).
>
> -sw
>
Google doesn't care about newsgroups and never will, IMHO.

Jill

On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:54:22 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>Google doesn't care about newsgroups and never will, IMHO.

That's right. I really worry about the condition of the archive these
days. Trying to do a search now is a bad joke, you don't know if it'll
work or not any more. I was not pleased when google announced they
were taking it over from Deja.

A company like google are inherently inappropriate for such a thing,
IMO it should be handed over to archive.org... I may be wrong, but I
would think archive.org would be keen to take it over - but then
google have done all they can to commercialise Usenet, so they may or
may not want to pass it onto someone else.