Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Retro Guy Newsgroups: news.admin.peering Subject: Re: Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable. Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:32:54 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: <0424e05779dc3ffc968bde10c535bd35@www.novabbs.org> References: <87cysl5fjg.fsf@hope.eyrie.org> <1728994796-7@newsgrouper.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2139993"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="HNchV9coSOli+kkOHciCZlGs2VaRn7Emh38jWV1k174"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Face: .&YR-G(w(DZ$$,}%k=]*5*!p'=(anr"IT`wZG'2VWdfl\r)l[42u7JH`n(JUQ*e5*A|XCDf ?&\X&uwkl38"CYX3O8m}C8E4p'%N$2#kSTVzx{Ly|DjLT\Vk7NE}NQ(VC$Yq]i:7|z[.9iv^g>*8_B H0=hZt'[%)4kG| X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$/jmWz0QJ8XQsM4.JZ779L.fPicigmtdd4EA.WI1g5RQ5isuP8DIVO X-Rslight-Posting-User: 28547bffeec402cc2e544e2f8e28cc9329f66434 Bytes: 2813 Lines: 31 On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:19:56 +0000, Colin Macleod wrote: > Schlomo Goldberg posted: >> >> There were tens (or hundreds) of thousands of messages in Thai posted to >> sci.crypt right before Google stopped peering, and I really doubt it >> served any purpose except of destroying that newsgroup. > > 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. -- Retro Guy