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From: Schlomo Goldberg <schlomo.goldberg@mailinator.com>
Newsgroups: news.admin.peering,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:20:56 -0000 (UTC)
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Nick Cine <nickcine@is.invalid> writes:

> On 24 Feb 2024 22:02:26 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> when the spam problem became really bad thanks to Google,
>> I think some time around 1995
>
> While the moment Google Groups went online there was "some" spam, didn't
> the spam problem really multiply in the thousands only recently?
>
> Like only a few months ago?
>
> Almost as if either Google suddenly turned some kind of filter off, or
> maybe the spammers suddenly started selling super-efficient ways around the
> normal Google spam filters?

Yes, I also noticed that just few months before Google stopped peering,
spam in some newsgroups increased tenfold.

I suspect it was done on purpose. Just an attempt to destroy the
platform they abandon.