Re: We're in the top ten!

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:04:53 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

Most of that google trafic wasn't legit.  Probably only me and the 3rd
to last person in alt.dreams who just dropped it after.

Yeah. It should be pointed out that quoted stats only apply to big-8
newsgroups, so all of the traffic in the ALT.* hierachy isn't counted.
And there /are/ some quite active newsgroups

      [Well, "active" from the perspective of 2025, not 1994]

in the ALT.* hierarchy that have nothing to do with porn or binaries.
So the rjk spoolstats aren't a complete picture.

But even if they triple the current "legitimate" (e.g., not stuff
that's likely to get a Usenet server shut-down) traffic, that's still
an insignificant number of users and traffic compared to any other
forum service.


CSIPGA was actually fairly lucky with regards to google-groups spam
(well, at least until the end when we got an unusual amount of it). I
don't know if it's just that this group wasn't worth targeting, or if
the spam-filters were working, but most of what we saw from google was
the errant user responding to a twenty-year old post. Which was sort
of fun in its own right, since it gave us something new (old!) to talk
about ;-)

It's actually been too much for me to read everything since I got busy
in October.

Well, there's the problem. Put aside all those other things that are
keeping you from Usenet. You gotta set your priorities, people! ;-)