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Gmane doesn't mirror google groups -- it mirrors public mailing lists and originally was made to reformat them for news readers[1]; some mailing lists use it in
by pseut 14y ago
Gmane doesn't mirror google groups -- it mirrors public mailing lists and originally was made to reformat them for news readers[1]; some mailing lists use it intentionally as their public archives (emacs org-mode for one) so you might be missing out if you blacklist it. I don't have any affiliation with them, but they don't seem too bad.
[1] http://gmane.org/about.php http://gmane.org/about.php
- rhizome 14y agoIf their purpose is so focused on newsreader formatting, they should tweak their robots.txt to keep from polluting SERPs.
- dsl 14y agoGoogle groups should modify its robots.txt to avoid showing up in SERPS. Gmane was around first.
- rhizome 14y agoGmane was not around first. Google Groups started almost a year before the gmane.org domain was even registered, and it was built upon the purchase of the DejaNews archives, which itself began in the mid-90s.
- pseut 14y agoDeja News was a web interface for Usenet, not a newsgroup interface for mailing lists. I don't remember when google groups switched to a web/mailing list setup, but I think it was later than 2002 (when Gmane started).