• Usenet spam

    From Sarah Anderson@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 7 07:23:03 2023
    An unexpected irony. The killer of rec.aviation.soaring in google groups is ....
    Google.

    It appears the source of most of the Usenet spam is Google itself.
    Usenet news administrators (there are still those?) are considering cutting the link.

    https://jfloren.net/b/2023/10/12/0
    "Google Groups may finally get (effectively) depeered from Usenet"

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Dan Marotta@21:1/5 to Sarah Anderson on Thu Dec 7 07:56:45 2023
    Hi Sarah,

    Did you happen to post that on "googleras"?  I wonder how they would respond...

    Dan 5J
    On 12/7/23 06:23, Sarah Anderson wrote:
    An unexpected irony. The killer of rec.aviation.soaring in google
    groups is ....
    Google.

    It appears the source of most of the Usenet spam is Google itself.
    Usenet news administrators (there are still those?) are considering
    cutting the link.

    https://jfloren.net/b/2023/10/12/0
    "Google Groups may finally get (effectively) depeered from Usenet"


    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Sarah Anderson@21:1/5 to Dan Marotta on Thu Dec 7 09:08:12 2023
    Naw. I sent in a request to join and didn't hear anything.
    I'll try again if and when I have something to say there.

    Not sure it matters. Google's groups, like ras_prime, are not the culprit.
    The problem is Google's support of RAS original (this one) and other Usenet groups.





    On 12/7/23 8:56 AM, Dan Marotta wrote:
    Hi Sarah,

    Did you happen to post that on "googleras"?  I wonder how they would respond...

    Dan 5J
    On 12/7/23 06:23, Sarah Anderson wrote:
    An unexpected irony. The killer of rec.aviation.soaring in google groups is ....
    Google.

    It appears the source of most of the Usenet spam is Google itself.
    Usenet news administrators (there are still those?) are considering cutting the link.

    https://jfloren.net/b/2023/10/12/0
    "Google Groups may finally get (effectively) depeered from Usenet"


    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)