<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>On Thu, Mar 25, 2021, at 6:36 PM, Juergen Fenn wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Am 25.03.21 um 22:13 Uhr schrieb Magnus Melin:<br></div><div>> Oh, and FYI apparently NNTP newsgroups are shutting down altogether<br></div><div>> (Mozilla wide).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Usenet newsgroups cannot be shut down because usenet is a decentralised<br></div><div>network, which means that it is up to every newsmaster to decide whether<br></div><div>to keep a newsgroup on his server or not. So these groups can live on<br></div><div>elsewhere. We've already seen this with Microsoft newsgroups when they<br></div><div>shut down their newsserver long ago.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Except the mozilla.* groups were special and Giganews and Google had an agreement not to allow them to propogate to any other news servers. If you saw them elsewhere someone was scraping them because the NNTP peering links weren't sharing them.<br></div><div><br></div><div>They plan to put the groups in read-only/archived mode so nobody can post to them anymore, but they probably won't go away.<br></div><div><br></div><div id="sig108939536"><div class="signature">Dave Miller [:justdave]<br></div><div class="signature">Thunderbird Release Engineer/Web Infra Engineer<br></div><div class="signature"><br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>