Lumifer comments on Open Thread April 8 - April 14 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 15 April 2014 05:02:08PM 3 points [-]

It's something like that. As I understand it, Google Groups runs thousands of normal email mailing lists with no connection to Usenet, but it also offers a bidirectional gateway to Usenet - GG'll show Usenet posts that it can download or which it has copies of in its huge archive, and it'll let GG users post to Usenet as well.

Comment author: Lumifer 15 April 2014 05:29:27PM 1 point [-]

So, basically, Google forked Usenet? X-)

Comment author: gwern 15 April 2014 10:27:45PM 4 points [-]

'Extend, Embrace, Extinguish.'