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From: Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups: alt.free.newsservers,news.groups
Subject: Re: Replacement for Google Groups?
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:06:50 -0300
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VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> writes:

> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>
>> Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> writes:
>> 
>>> VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> posted:
>>>> 
>>>> Elsewhere you mention you will block UK visitors to circumvent kowtowing
>>>> to the UK Online Safety Act requirements and dangers thereof.  Here, and
>>>> at your web site, I missed any mention that UK visitors would get
>>>> blocked from using your service.  Maybe geofencing is something
>>>> mentioned when trying to register to use your service.
>>>
>>> Are you in the UK?  If your IP address indicates you are in the UK
>>> (according to Cloudflare) you will get a warning about the impending block
>>> as soon as you log in, either as a guest or as a registered user.
>> 
>> I haven't understood why the block.  Could you clarify?  I gave a look
>> at the newsgrouper website, but didn't see any obvious notice there.
>> Thanks!
>
> See Colin's thread over in the eternal-september.support newsgroup
> titled "Newsgroups and the UK Online Safety Act".

The support group is 24hoursupport.helpdesk.  It has little retention.
I also tried searching on newsgrouper itself, but it seems to mention
that the group is from blueworldhosting.  I searched anyway and found
nothing---used your keywords in quotes (but without quotes).  Thanks in
any case!