From: james.m.gibson@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 5:40:02 PM UTC-5, Con Reeder, unhyphenated   
   American wrote:   
   > On 2023-12-14, JGibson  wrote:    
   > > Just saw this note that the top of rsfc:    
   > >    
   > > *BEGIN QUOTE*    
   > > Effective February 15, 2024, Google Groups will no longer support new    
   > > Usenet content. Posting and subscribing will be disallowed, and new    
   > > content from Usenet peers will not appear. Viewing and searching of    
   > > historical data will still be supported as it is done today   
   > I suspect that post volume will dictate that -- seems like the majority    
   > of users are from Google Groups.    
   >    
   > What do you use for email? A lot of the clients have Usenet, such as    
   > Thunderbird.    
   >    
   > I wonder if Eternal September will get overwhelmed and disappear, requiring    
   > one to pay for it. There are no good providers with sub-$5.00/month cost   
   that    
   > I can find. I had a $3.00 Supernews for years, but that is gone.    
   >    
   > I suppose I could bring up a Usenet server and try to pull RSFC and    
   > a couple of other groups, but I haven't tried to find Usenet peers for    
   > more than a decade and don't even know if it is really possible....    
      
   Outside of my work e-mail, I use gmail.   
      
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