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Google Groups ending support for Usenet (22/02/2024) (support.google.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Knowing Google, this is not a given at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, it needs to get into Internet Archive stat.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

they ain't got that much storage without skipping the good stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK Google isn't mirroring any of the binary stuff anyway though, are they? So how big is it? Surely with proper text compression it's under 100TB. That's 5 large hard drives at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The binary stuff is all on the paid usenet servers. Those are still very popular for piracy and not going away anytime soon.