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 Historical content remains viewable.

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

 
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.

I think what may have happened was that the spammers realised that Google
was indexing anything posted in G.Groups and so it could function as SEO
spam, regardless of whether anyone actually read the posts.

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Colin Macleod.