From: usotsuki@buric.co   
      
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   On Sun, 17 Dec 2023, Tempest wrote:   
      
   > On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 7:06:53 PM UTC-5, fadden wrote:   
   >> "Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups (at    
   >> groups.google.com) to post content to Usenet groups, subscribe to    
   >> Usenet groups, or view new Usenet content. You can continue to view and    
   >> search for historical Usenet content posted before February 22, 2024 on    
   >> Google Groups."   
   >>   
   >> That might put a damper on the viability of csa2/cea2/csa2p.   
   >   
   > Certainly seems like the end of an era doesn't it?  Like when all the    
   > roundtables and discussion groups closed down on the various online    
   > services.  I'll admit that I've been tired of wading through all the    
   > spam to see new messages lately, so I'm not surprised that Google is    
   > finally killing the newsgroups.  Hopefully AtariAge will pick up the    
   > slack and be a centralized location for Apple II discussion, but I might    
   > be a bit biased there. :)   
   >   
   That is, if Nutari doesn't decide they're going to rejig it into a forum    
   specific to tooting their own horn and get rid of all the non-Atari stuff.    
   (I'm fully expecting that to happen *eventually*, just not making a    
   prediction on how eventually eventually is, but the second I found out    
   about that, I dropped the forum like a bad habit.)   
      
   -uso.   
      
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