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   XPost: alt.religion.shamanism, alt.magick, alt.traditional.witchcraft   
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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Feb 22, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   (in article<0001HW.2B87E0AC000CED3870000F68338F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
      
   > On Feb 21, 2024, David Dalton wrote   
   > (in article<0001HW.2B86BFC6009619AD7000026DF38F@news.eternal-september.org>):   
   >   
   > > As of sometime PST tomorrow, February 22, 2024, Google   
   > > Groups will stop updating its archive of Usenet newsgroups   
   > > including this one, though searching of the archive before   
   > > then will still be available.   
   > >   
   > > It is only the Google Groups portal to this newsgroup that   
   > > is getting shut down, which will mean less spam. You   
   > > can still access this newsgroup via a newsreader such   
   > > as Agent on Windows, Hogwasher on Mac, Pan on Linux,   
   > > or the free Thunderbird (even if you don’t also use it for   
   > > email) on all three, accessing a free newsserver such   
   > > as Eternal September or Solani, or, if you want binary   
   > > access, a paid newsserver such as Giganews.   
   >   
   > One effect of the shutdown is that you now seem to be   
   > able to do searching on Google Groups without having   
   > to be signed in to your Google account.   
      
   That is if you go directly to a group URL, e.g..   
   https://groups.google.com/g/alt.religion.druid , but if you   
   go to https://groups.google.com it is still prompting you   
   to sign in, at least for now.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   “And the cart is on a wheel; And the wheel is on a hill;   
   And the hill is shifting sand; And inside these laws we stand" (Ferron)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)