Subject: bug#76196: Obsoleting gnus/nnweb.el

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:09:43 +0200

> From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:57:09 -0800
> 
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The nnweb backend for Gnus is currently of rather limited use: it only
> supports Google Groups, which is defunct.  They seem to have
> discontinued their Usenet archive service in February 2024, according to
> Wikipedia.[1]
> 
> I also get 404 and 400 for the provided URLs in `nnweb-type-definition`.
> 
> I suggest that we either find and implement support for a replacement
> for Google Groups, or otherwise that we mark it as obsolete.  Having
> clearly broken functionality around does not serve users.
> 
> Footnotes:
> [1]  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups

Let's at least include the Gnus developers in this discussion.