D wrote:
the only prediction thus far is that google shall decommission

their usenet

gateway as they announced last 14 december to be effective 15

february 2024

then moved the goal posts to the persisting expectation of 22

february 2024,

so they can easily modify their public announcement without

previous notice

and keep doing that until the cows come home . . . if and when

their usenet

gateway is actually disconnected, then dozens of spam-friendly news

servers

could experience a measurable increase in spam, troll-farm

infestation, etc.

certainly some news server administrators may be motivated to

tighten their

restrictions on cross-posting, user registration requirements, and

throttle

server access to limit use and potential abuse; simply limiting

cross-posts

to five (5) and depeering any servers that allow more would be a

good start,

better if crossposting were eliminated altogether, but it will get

stricter

Google Groups finally shut down, around Noon on February 22.

I too suspected they'd wait a while longer but the axe just fell.


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