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On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 12:41:32 +0200, R Daneel Olivaw <Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov> wrote:
>The Doctor wrote:
>> Group : news.admin.net-abuse.usenet
>> Statistics : from 8/1/2024 to 8/31/2024
>> ***** Users with most messages *****
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>> 
>> ***** 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
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>  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.
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