Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20240903.150204.ab30887b@mixmin.net> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 15:02:04 +0100 From: D References: Subject: Re: stats 2024-08 Newsgroups: news.admin.net-abuse.usenet Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.in-chemnitz.de!news2.arglkargh.de!alphared!sewer!news.dizum.net!not-for-mail Organization: dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider X-Abuse: abuse@dizum.com Injection-Info: sewer.dizum.com - 2001::1/128 Bytes: 6897 Lines: 125 On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 12:41:32 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw wrote: >The Doctor wrote: >> Group : news.admin.net-abuse.usenet >> Statistics : from 8/1/2024 to 8/31/2024 >> ***** Users with most messages ***** snip >> >> ***** Summary results ***** >> Total found messages : 9 for 31 days >> New threads : 7 >> Total replies : 2 >> Total modified threads : 8 >> Total size : 77950 bytes (76.12 KB) >> Total lines : 1346 lines >> Total users : 5 >> Average number of messages by user : 1.80 >> Average size of messages by user : 15,590.00 bytes (15.22 KB)) >> Average number of lines by user : 269.20 >-- >The numbers prove that usenet is not dying > >Given those (atypical) numbers, your sig was totally inappropriate this >month. I suppose that has a lot to do with the abdication of the >largest spammer in February. no one has described the impending "googlecide" better than this . . . >Newsgroups: eternal-september.talk, alt.free.newsservers, alt.september >Subject: Looming Groupocalypse : The Google Groupsspaggheddon Cometh! >Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:38:43 -0600 >Message-ID: <1fa0133234a88bf23788c8d0ea360913$1@sybershock.com> >Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; >... > Usenet is dead. > Usenet has always been dead. > Usenet is dying. > Usenet is always dying. > Live with it. > Long live Usenet! > Google Groups has provided Usenet access for many years > since Google acquired DejaNews 22 years ago, circa 2002. > For some of these years Google has allowed a non-stop spam > flooding, denial of service attack against the Usenet > network. Google and other large Usenet providers have > suborned a non-stop flood of zillions and bazillions of spam > articles over the years, making newsgroups unusable for many > end-users, causing much exodus from the Usenet network. Some > believe that this was not incompetence or negligence, but > intentional malice disguised as incompetence and negligence. > Pretending to serve a network while undermining it in deed > comports with the principle of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish." > Some are firmly convinced this is the real cause of the spam. > A recent anti-spam campaign got a lot of people breathing > down Google's neck. Rather than end the flooding and denial > of service that it caused, Google has decided to stop > peering Usenet feeds altogether. Some have opined that this > is like amputating a leg to remedy a ingrown toenail. Google > users will lose Usenet posting access without recourse. > In February Google is pulling the plug. A large number of > Google users will no longer be able to access Usenet. Those > users will need to find some other way to access Usenet > newsgroups. I like to think of it as 'unplugment day'. > Some posters in the Usenet have been opining that it will > be an apocalyptic event similar to Eternal September when > hordes of AOL users were unleashed on Usenet decades ago. > Since the influx of ISP users decimated politeness on the > Usenet, it is said that September of 1993 never ended. > Usenetizens still call this era the 'Eternal September.' > Now a horde of Google Groups users will be potentially > unleashed on the other Usenet service providers, especially > the free providers. A swarm of new signups is expected. Some > free Usenet providers are already dealing with a spike in > new registrations. > That cutoff date is February 22, 2024. After that time the > Google users will no longer be able to access Usenet content. > In Eternal September time the cutoff date will be the 11131st > day of September, 1993. > Since many Google users are clueless, some likely won't > realize their Usenet access is sunset until the moment it is > cut off. Then there is potential for a search panic as they > try to discover why they cannot access Usenet groups via > Google Groups. It has been jokingly called the Google Groups > Apocalypse or the Google Groups Armageddon. Some users post > Usenet articles counting down the days to the cutoff date. > Some wordplay gives silly effect to these phrases: > groupocalypse ==> group + apocalypse > goopocalypse ==> google + apocalypse > groupsspagheddon ==> groups + spaghetti + armageddon > So now this ditty might make sense: > The 'groupocalypse' looms. > Google 'groupsspaggheddon' cometh. > There shall be zoomer weeping, > Karen wailing, > and boomer gnashing of dentures. > This is a spoof on verses from the books of Matthew and > Revelation: > "As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; > so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man > shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of > his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do > iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there > shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." > "The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, > shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping > and wailing ..." > "Weeping and wailing" becomes: "Zoomer weeping, Karen > wailing ..." > "Gnashing of teeth" becomes: "Boomer gnashing of dentures." > I suppose that the "merchants" could spoof for spammers. Yet > I doubt any spammers were, "made rich by her." > Since it is the end of yet another era for Usenet, it is > 'apocalyptic' in a lampoon way, like the end of the Usenet > world when the month of Eternal September began. It is a > comical, cosmological holy day, an 'apocalypse' for which we > know the exact date of its coming. It is bombastic burlesque, > a rampant style of humor that runs riot on Usenet. > The impending cessation of Google Usenet peering may cause a > chaotic scramble to find Usenet access. Or it may go hardly > noticed, an anti-apocalyptic whimper in the night. The Google > Groupocalypse might signal a great shift, or it may mererly > result in less spam. That is a change I can live with. > Whether February 22, 2024 comes in like a lion or a lamb, that > day will always be September 11131, 1993. And one thing is > sure: If September is eternal, then Usenet is eternal, too. [end quote]