On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:51:17 -0700 (PDT)
Mehran Basti <Basti05b@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hello Google:
This is not Google. Google do not read newsgroups, they just provide
a web-based archive and front end to a global distributed network of
NNTP servers. If you continue to post irrelevant rubbish to chartered
newsgroups, and Google receives enough complaints about it, they will
remove /your/ account.
>
> Note: Basti Newsgroups are at this time on experimental b***** on
> Google, and as soon as we have enough members we will transfer it to a
> private site (thus will not experience such events again).
I'd have thought that someone who runs a sci.comp group should be
able to set up his own server to run a private newsgroup or web
forum - a spare PC running free software on a broadband connection
would be enough in the early stages, switching to a co-located server as
traffic increased. Not that I think your traffic is ever going to
increase much, unless you find a better potential user base than you
appear to have ATM. Who exactly is supposed to need this service?
>
> The public should be aware of such deficiencies in Google groups.
>
The public at large will probably continue to use Google Groups
because they don't know that the Internet does anything apart from HTTP
and SMTP/POP, those with more of a clue will continue to use NNTP and
other protocols and software that are better suited to the job at hand.
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