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 Historical content remains viewable.

Schlomo Goldberg <schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com> wrote:
 

Harry S Robins <stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> writes:
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I wouldn't blame Google so much as the spammers themselves, where it may
have been a single "spam king" for all we know, where I never understood
what the purpose was since the English-language spam was nearly
incomprehensible.
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Is there evidence for it being one small set of spammers software doing
most of the exponential increase in spam that escalated only a few months
prior to Google shutting the whole thing down?

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There were tens (or hundreds) of thousands of messages in Thai posted to
sci.crypt right before Google stopped peering, and I really doubt it
served any purpose except of destroying that newsgroup.
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There are other examples, too.
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 A cynical person might imagine that it was government inspired.