Re: Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.

Nick Cine <nickcine@is.invalid> writes:

On 24 Feb 2024 22:02:26 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:
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when the spam problem became really bad thanks to Google,
I think some time around 1995

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While the moment Google Groups went online there was "some" spam, didn't
the spam problem really multiply in the thousands only recently?
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Like only a few months ago?
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Almost as if either Google suddenly turned some kind of filter off, or
maybe the spammers suddenly started selling super-efficient ways around the
normal Google spam filters?

Yes, I also noticed that just few months before Google stopped peering,
spam in some newsgroups increased tenfold.

I suspect it was done on purpose. Just an attempt to destroy the
platform they abandon.