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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marco Moock Newsgroups: alt.usage.english Subject: Google Groups closing in 2 days Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 12:07:45 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:07:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="539cfa7f13405ac21762a7e7fd5f5bcc"; logging-data="2530962"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Rfw2PxHgHxjNcoJ2P3zB5" Cancel-Lock: sha1:hJpX+z2/beBKp32OBDOf3iLAJQ4= Bytes: 2362 Hello! This is only relevant for those people who read or post in that newsgroup using Google Groups. Google will discontinue Groups in 2 days. For those who do not know Usenet: Usenet is a distributed communication system consisting of many servers. Google Groups is only one of them that closes down - other servers will stay available, but people need to use another server to read and post here. There are 2 alternatives: Using a web-based Usenet interface: Those behave similar to Google Groups, you can read there, but for posting you need to register an account for free. One of them is: https://www.novabbs.com/interests/thread.php?group=alt.usage.english Another alternative is to use an NNTP server with a so called newsreader. As an NNTP server, some free services exist where you have to register: https://www.eternal-september.org/ https://solani.org/ https://www.i2pn2.org/ https://news.nntp4.net/ For using it, you need a newsreader. Some examples are: https://www.thunderbird.net https://www.betterbird.eu/ https://claws-mail.org/ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ You then need to configure a newsgroup account, sometimes also called NNTP. For most servers, authentication must be enforced in the newsreader's settings. For Thunderbird, a tutorial is available here: https://www.big-8.org/wiki/Getting_Started_with_Usenet For questions about configuring those readers, feel free to ask in the group news.software.readers.