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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.nobody.at!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!news.szaf.org!news.amigaxess.de!news.amigaxess.de!.POSTED.185.209.199.140!not-for-mail From: Schlomo Goldberg 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 Historical content remains viewable.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 23:28:32 -0000 (UTC) Organization: AmigaXess Message-ID: References: <87cysl5fjg.fsf@hope.eyrie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:28:32 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: amigaxess.de; posting-host="185.209.199.140"; logging-data="334021"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@amigaxess.de" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Bytes: 1888 Lines: 15 Harry S Robins 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.