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 Historical content remains viewable.

Retro Guy <retroguy@novabbs.com> posted:

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:19:56 +0000, Colin Macleod wrote:

>
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.

 
That was my view also. It makes sense as getting links into search
engines is a goal of some.
 
This is why I don't see it continuing at that level post-GG on sites
like yours and mine. Once GG closed a small group of people ran
screaming that my "web portal" was going to be just the same problem as
GG. Some even block my entire server out of this fear, which is of
course their choice :)
 
I doubt the spammers even know of the existence of our sites and if they
do, we are way to small to make any impact. Plus, at least on mine and I
assume yours, there is filtering in place to make mass spamming
impossible. Small spamming, sure, but not dumping tons of articles every
second.
 
Anyway, that's the long version of me saying, "I agree with you" lol.

Thanks. I have a couple of impediments to such abuse:

1) I keep registration as a manual process to prevent hit-and-run signups.

2) You need a cookie to access anything other than the login page, I don't
think Google is going to bother faking a login to be able to index articles.

--
Colin Macleod.