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  • does anyone post here or is it just all spam now?

    From Jai@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 11 13:23:15 2017
    It seems to be just spam now.

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  • From Lars Brinkhoff@21:1/5 to Jai on Tue Dec 12 06:10:17 2017
    Jai wrote:
    It seems to be just spam now.

    I saw three messages in November, none of them spam.

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  • From Bruce Mardle@21:1/5 to Lars Brinkhoff on Sat Dec 16 08:02:27 2017
    On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 06:10:19 UTC, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
    Jai wrote:
    It seems to be just spam now.

    I saw three messages in November, none of them spam.

    I just had an Emacs question... but I found the answer in the manual.
    Damn!
    :-)

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  • From adilhasan927@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Jai on Wed Feb 7 09:04:17 2018
    On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:23:18 AM UTC+5, Jai wrote:
    It seems to be just spam now.
    The newsgroup's pretty much dead. I just use /r/emacs on Reddit for my emacs-related discussion.

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  • From downtime null@21:1/5 to adilhasan927@gmail.com on Sat Apr 7 05:23:52 2018
    On 2018-02-07, adilhasan927@gmail.com <adilhasan927@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:23:18 AM UTC+5, Jai wrote:
    It seems to be just spam now.
    The newsgroup's pretty much dead. I just use /r/emacs on Reddit for my emacs-related discussion.
    I love Reddit, but usenet is so nostalgic. I do think it's funny that
    there is so much spam on such a waning communication platform.

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  • From Ivan Shmakov@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 29 14:45:47 2018
    adilhasan927@gmail.com writes:
    On Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 2:23:18 AM UTC+5, Jai wrote:

    It seems to be just spam now.

    I have a feeling that going through this group on Google Groups
    and "reporting" (they do have this function, right?) every single
    unwanted message there may change things a bit for the better.

    The newsgroup's pretty much dead. I just use /r/emacs on Reddit for
    my emacs-related discussion.

    Well, so long that there's a way to post to Reddit from Emacs...

    Although I see one another plus side to Usenet: its distributed
    nature makes moderators' abuse virtually impossible. Not even
    mailing lists do offer such a feature.

    --
    FSF associate member #7257 http://am-1.org/~ivan/

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