was this group functioning before Feb 22 ?

https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 12:30:24 -0700, HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> wrote:
>was this group functioning before Feb 22 ?
>https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german

"groups.google.com" shut down their usenet gateway shortly after 7 a.m.
googleplex (pacific standard) time thursday 22 february 2024 ... r.i.p.

On 4/5/2024 9:30 PM, HenHanna wrote:
>
> was this group functioning  before Feb 22 ?
>
>
> https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german

at one point for sure

On 4/5/2024 1:12 PM, Kyonshi wrote:
> On 4/5/2024 9:30 PM, HenHanna wrote:
>>
>> was this group functioning  before Feb 22 ?
>>
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german
>
> at one point for sure

Yes, but how recently ?

On 4/9/2024 2:56 PM, HenHanna wrote:
> On 4/5/2024 1:12 PM, Kyonshi wrote:
>> On 4/5/2024 9:30 PM, HenHanna wrote:
>>>
>>> was this group functioning  before Feb 22 ?
>>>
>>>
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/soc.culture.german
>>
>> at one point for sure
>
>
>   Yes,   but  how  recently ?

From what I can see on my news server, which goes back to 2014,
soc.culture.german was, throughout that period, filled with mostly spam
and off-topic postings, with rare exceptions.

I am sure there was a time when the newsgroup had a higher quality of
postings, but I don't know when that would have been. I suppose one
could find it through Google Groups, but one would have to click back
through hundreds of pages of threads, one page of 30 threads at a time,
to find when that was.

The newsgroup was "functioning" before Feb. 22 in the sense that posts
were being received and transmitted, but not in the sense that any
significant portion of the posts were about Germany or German culture.

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com

On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 01:28:14 -0500, Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com> wrote:
snip
>
> From what I can see on my news server, which goes back to 2014,
>soc.culture.german was, throughout that period, filled with mostly spam
>and off-topic postings, with rare exceptions.
>I am sure there was a time when the newsgroup had a higher quality of
>postings, but I don't know when that would have been. I suppose one
>could find it through Google Groups, but one would have to click back
>through hundreds of pages of threads, one page of 30 threads at a time,
>to find when that was.
>The newsgroup was "functioning" before Feb. 22 in the sense that posts
>were being received and transmitted, but not in the sense that any
>significant portion of the posts were about Germany or German culture.

using 40tude dialog and the "news.blueworldhosting.com" server, which
has long retention (currently 136235 articles, mostly after 7/1/2003)
shows about three-fourths (~75%) of these articles were cross-posted,
and almost half (64626, ~47%) of all articles were posted from google
groups; it's typical for active newsgroups to get spammed and trolled

On 4/10/2024 3:30 PM, D wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 01:28:14 -0500, Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com> wrote:
> snip
>>
>> From what I can see on my news server, which goes back to 2014,
>> soc.culture.german was, throughout that period, filled with mostly spam
>> and off-topic postings, with rare exceptions.
>> I am sure there was a time when the newsgroup had a higher quality of
>> postings, but I don't know when that would have been. I suppose one
>> could find it through Google Groups, but one would have to click back
>> through hundreds of pages of threads, one page of 30 threads at a time,
>> to find when that was.
>> The newsgroup was "functioning" before Feb. 22 in the sense that posts
>> were being received and transmitted, but not in the sense that any
>> significant portion of the posts were about Germany or German culture.
>
> using 40tude dialog and the "news.blueworldhosting.com" server, which
> has long retention (currently 136235 articles, mostly after 7/1/2003)
> shows about three-fourths (~75%) of these articles were cross-posted,
> and almost half (64626, ~47%) of all articles were posted from google
> groups; it's typical for active newsgroups to get spammed and trolled
>

yeah, but are there any posts that show this group was active since the
millenium?