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 Historical content remains viewable.

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:20:56 -0000 (UTC), Schlomo Goldberg <schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com> wrote:

Nick Cine <nickcine@is.invalid> writes:

On 24 Feb 2024 22:02:26 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

when the spam problem became really bad thanks to Google,
I think some time around 1995

>
While the moment Google Groups went online there was "some" spam, didn't
the spam problem really multiply in the thousands only recently?
Like only a few months ago?
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.

but how could the heavenly host kill something that was already dead?
insiders have been saying usenet is dead before google was in diapers,
so it makes sense that google's disconnection from usenet was just as
they said:

...Over the last several years, legitimate activity in text-based
  Usenet groups has declined significantly because users have moved
  to more modern technologies and formats such as social media and
  web-based forums. Much of the content being disseminated via
  Usenet today is binary (non-text) file sharing, which Google
  Groups does not support, as well as spam...

many users agree that usenet has always been dead, and that is why it
is so popular because no one in the world has the power to kill it...

From: Schlomo Goldberg <schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
Subject: Re: Good guys! Where are you?
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:49:02 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: AmigaXess
Message-ID: <ve942e$9i3c$1@amigaxess.de>
...
Usenet is dead.