> r u a moron 2?

>> No shit.

>> r u a moron 2?

> Actually, it seems to be worse than that:

> There's no Usenet posts at all . . . .

> It's either all web-forums if you select "all groups" or all "Google
> groups" if you select that:

> The Usenet archive seems to be completely gone.

> Well, after seeing how Google has handled one of the real and historic if
> variegated treasures of the IT world, one can only say:

> Welcome to the "new corporate culture"!

>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:50:38 -0500, mimus wrote:

>>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:39:14 -0500, mimus wrote:

>>>> No shit.

>>>> r u a moron 2?

>>> Actually, it seems to be worse than that:

>>> There's no Usenet posts at all . . . .

>>> It's either all web-forums if you select "all groups" or all "Google
>>> groups" if you select that:

>>> The Usenet archive seems to be completely gone.

>>> Well, after seeing how Google has handled one of the real and historic if
>>> variegated treasures of the IT world, one can only say:

>>> Welcome to the "new corporate culture"!

>> Whoops, my bad, assisted somewhat by Google's ever-changing lunacy:

>> The group is listed on the second line of each listing, and a munged URL
>> at the bottom of each listing, starting out "http://groups.google.com . .
>> . " (WTF is that supposed to do? it's not a link), which is what I was
>> looking at.

>> Also, the author's name is no longer featured in the listing.

>> And it helps weed out the web-forums to use "-www" as a final search-term.

>> <sob>

>> The strain of dealing with Google's handling of the old Deja Usenet
>> archive (originally assembled, it should be remembered, by volunteers from
>> all around the world, _and then sold to Google_ by Deja), is obviously
>> getting to me.

>> (I was ready to declare total war . . . .)

> At least they brought back the MID search.  That's ~something~.