17 Sep
2022
17 Sep
'22
1 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Sept 2022 at 18:51, Michael Parson <mparson(a)bl.org> wrote:
My current boss was a news admin at Dejanews and was there during
their end days. I was the sysadmin for the datacenter (SMARTNAP) that
DejaNews was co-lo'd in. Everyone wanted to peer with my news server
since it fed directly into Dejanews' stuff which was a couple of racks
down from my stuff.
Google bought Deja and ruined it.
I knew the head sysadmin from Dejanews very well and I remember his story
about them being bought out by Google. Google flew in a bunch of engineers
with a bunch of disks, imaged the whole database over a weekend, and then
fired everyone. Good times.
-Henry