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J. Clarke
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phorbin wrote:
In article ,
says...
phorbin wrote:
In article ,
says...
A news readar and news server is not a substitute for the dejanews
archive that Google maintains, containing posts going back into the
late '80s.
Google is not a substitute for the dejanews archive, which Google
lost.
When did this loss occur?
It was a failed attempt to migrate the Dejanews database to Google. I
don't know how much they lost, but every thing I'd written was erased
from the record and I'd been a participant all over the place for a
long time.
There was a sorta oops, we broke it permanently message when it
happened. --I'll admit to wondering if they meant to break it.
The information is here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deja_News
It says that deja lost a lot of data in 1999 and that Google bought deja in
2001. Seems to me that you're blaming Google for somebody else's mistake.
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