From: exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net   
      
   Steve Hayes  wrote on 09 Nov 2018 in   
   soc.genealogy.britain:   
      
   >>Pyrrhic victory though, isn't it, because google groups has now dropped   
   >>this group, including apparently its 20 year archive. As the rootsweb   
   >>gateway has also gone, and the rootsweb list is broken, hardly anyone   
   >>will now find the group, so the on topic postings are lost as well.   
   >   
   > Well isn't that what some members of this group have always wanted?   
   > They were always saying that they blocked members who posted via   
   > Googlegroups, and were always complaining about people who replied to   
   > old messages, so they should be rejoicing at the loss of the archive   
   > and the disconnection from GoogleGroups.   
      
   Since 1995 DejaNews was Steve Madere's search archive from 1981 of all   
   Usenet text groups.   
      
   In 2001 Google bought the archive and domains and included a web interface   
   for using Usenet.   
      
   For many of us, the rest is abhorrent history. Google converted this now   
   renamed to Google Groups service in a way that diminished the archive   
   service to what it presently is.   
      
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