Re: Usenet (was: Re: Royal Back of Canada Phish coming from Google Gmail)

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:17:40 -0800, Randolf Richardson ??? <noc@inter-corporate.com> wrote:
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I believe that this is a reasonable expectation.  It's a problem
when the internet provider is also the spammer, but I don't have
any reason to suspect that Google is in the spam business

if the broader definition of "spam" were to include both commercial and
non-commercial forms of advertising, off-topic and oft-crossposted junk,
troll-farm sockpuppetry, crowding, flooding, ad nauseam, then google is
the most successful server in history by virtue of the unrivaled volume
of articles injected into the usenet newsgroup forums... but apart from
the mass numbers involved, literally billions and billions and billions
(reminiscent of carl sagan talking about the number of suns in galaxies)
google wasn't doing anything much worse than what all other servers are
doing as a matter of routine ... google only did a whole lot more of it