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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 Historical content remains viewable.
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Harry S Robins <stanleyrobins@nothere.uk> writes:

> I wouldn't blame Google so much as the spammers themselves, where it may
> have been a single "spam king" for all we know, where I never understood
> what the purpose was since the English-language spam was nearly
> incomprehensible.
>
> Is there evidence for it being one small set of spammers software doing
> most of the exponential increase in spam that escalated only a few months
> prior to Google shutting the whole thing down?

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.

There are other examples, too.