Brian Gaff wrote

Yes but is it sustainable at their low cost.

Yes, its been around for a long time now and was in fact free originally.

Indeed where do eternal september get the money to keep their servers
running form.

Doesn’t need any real money.

I think the main casualties will be binary groups

Yes, nin has never done binarys.

or thir retention times.

nin has very decent retention times.

I wonder how long google will support the archive and keep offering web
access to it?

Likely forever. It’s a tiny part of their total costs.

I do notice they are removing, indeed have removed the apis for
feedburner, turning it into a basic podcast list again, though I strongly
suspect they themselves will be using it to track stuff using it but not
let anyone else do it!

Unlikely.

But news groups really do need to be plugged more in my opinion.

Doing that wouldn’t make any difference.

If groups.google didn’t help, nothing will now.


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