Re: stats 2024-08

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 12:41:32 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

Group : news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
Statistics : from 8/1/2024 to 8/31/2024
***** Users with most messages *****

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***** Summary results *****
Total found messages : 9 for 31 days
New threads : 7
Total replies : 2
Total modified threads : 8
Total size : 77950 bytes (76.12 KB)
Total lines : 1346 lines
Total users : 5
Average number of messages by user : 1.80
Average size of messages by user : 15,590.00 bytes (15.22 KB))
Average number of lines by user : 269.20

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The numbers prove that usenet is not dying
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Given those (atypical) numbers, your sig was totally inappropriate this
month.  I suppose that has a lot to do with the abdication of the
largest spammer in February.

no one has described the impending "googlecide" better than this . . .

Newsgroups: eternal-september.talk, alt.free.newsservers, alt.september
Subject: Looming Groupocalypse : The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh!
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:38:43 -0600
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 Usenet is dead.
 Usenet has always been dead.
 Usenet is dying.
 Usenet is always dying.
 Live with it.
 Long live Usenet!
 Google Groups has provided Usenet access for many years
 since Google acquired DejaNews 22 years ago, circa 2002.
 For some of these years Google has allowed a non-stop spam
 flooding, denial of service attack against the Usenet
 network. Google and other large Usenet providers have
 suborned a non-stop flood of zillions and bazillions of spam
 articles over the years, making newsgroups unusable for many
 end-users, causing much exodus from the Usenet network. Some
 believe that this was not incompetence or negligence, but
 intentional malice disguised as incompetence and negligence.
 Pretending to serve a network while undermining it in deed
 comports with the principle of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."
 Some are firmly convinced this is the real cause of the spam.
   A recent anti-spam campaign got a lot of people breathing
 down Google's neck. Rather than end the flooding and denial
 of service that it caused, Google has decided to stop
 peering Usenet feeds altogether. Some have opined that this
 is like amputating a leg to remedy a ingrown toenail. Google
 users will lose Usenet posting access without recourse.
   In February Google is pulling the plug. A large number of
 Google users will no longer be able to access Usenet. Those
 users will need to find some other way to access Usenet
 newsgroups. I like to think of it as 'unplugment day'.
 Some posters in the Usenet have been opining that it will
 be an apocalyptic event similar to Eternal September when
 hordes of AOL users were unleashed on Usenet decades ago.
 Since the influx of ISP users decimated politeness on the
 Usenet, it is said that September of 1993 never ended.
 Usenetizens still call this era the 'Eternal September.'
   Now a horde of Google Groups users will be potentially
 unleashed on the other Usenet service providers, especially
 the free providers. A swarm of new signups is expected. Some
 free Usenet providers are already dealing with a spike in
 new registrations.
   That cutoff date is February 22, 2024. After that time the
 Google users will no longer be able to access Usenet content.
 In Eternal September time the cutoff date will be the 11131st
 day of September, 1993.
   Since many Google users are clueless, some likely won't
 realize their Usenet access is sunset until the moment it is
 cut off. Then there is potential for a search panic as they
 try to discover why they cannot access Usenet groups via
 Google Groups. It has been jokingly called the Google Groups
 Apocalypse or the Google Groups Armageddon. Some users post
 Usenet articles counting down the days to the cutoff date.
   Some wordplay gives silly effect to these phrases:
   groupocalypse      ==>   group + apocalypse
   goopocalypse       ==>   google + apocalypse
   groupsspagheddon   ==>   groups + spaghetti + armageddon
 So now this ditty might make sense:
   The 'groupocalypse' looms.
   Google 'groupsspaggheddon' cometh.
   There shall be zoomer weeping,
   Karen wailing,
   and boomer gnashing of dentures.
 This is a spoof on verses from the books of Matthew and
 Revelation:
 "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire;
 so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man
 shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of
 his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do
 iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there
 shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
 "The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,
 shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping
 and wailing ..."
 "Weeping and wailing" becomes: "Zoomer weeping, Karen
 wailing ..."
 "Gnashing of teeth" becomes: "Boomer gnashing of dentures."
 I suppose that the "merchants" could spoof for spammers. Yet
 I doubt any spammers were, "made rich by her."
   Since it is the end of yet another era for Usenet, it is
 'apocalyptic' in a lampoon way, like the end of the Usenet
 world when the month of Eternal September began. It is a
 comical, cosmological holy day, an 'apocalypse' for which we
 know the exact date of its coming. It is bombastic burlesque,
 a rampant style of humor that runs riot on Usenet.
   The impending cessation of Google Usenet peering may cause a
 chaotic scramble to find Usenet access. Or it may go hardly
 noticed, an anti-apocalyptic whimper in the night. The Google
 Groupocalypse might signal a great shift, or it may mererly
 result in less spam. That is a change I can live with.
   Whether February 22, 2024 comes in like a lion or a lamb, that
 day will always be September 11131, 1993. And one thing is
 sure: If September is eternal, then Usenet is eternal, too.

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