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From: HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb>
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Subject: Re: Is this the end of SLJ? -- Spam was the main factor (that
 destroyed SLJ)?
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:17:09 -0700
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On 10/25/2023 10:09 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <RJZgNzzq7otMBCT65@bongo-ra.co>,
> Spiros Bousbouras  <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 14:41:20 -0000 (UTC)
>> doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) wrote:
>>> Is this like comp.arch or comp.lang.c?
>>
>> I'm not sure what you're asking. If the question is whether the spam on
>> sci.lang.japan  is as bad as it is on  comp.arch  or  comp.lang.c , I
>> don't know. Try the groups through a server which doesn't seem to filter
>> the spam (news.cyber23.de  doesn't seem to do so) and with your own filters
>> off and you can form your own opinion.
> 
> It is similar spam injected in a similar way.  Much like the spam on
> comp.os.vms and on comp.protocols.time.ntp.  It is more or less a universal
> problem across usenet.  Many sites sites just dump all Google postings or
> dump anything with "UTF-8" in a malformed subject line.
> --scott


so you think Spam was the main factor  (that destroyed SLJ)?