Subj : Re: Google Groups + Usenet
To   : Avon
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Feb 28 2024 06:51 am

-=> Avon wrote to All <=-

 Av> Well after several months of forewarning and a ton of increased spam
 Av> coming out of google groups, Google have de-peered from Usenet.

 Av> news.bbs.nz was (before they de-peered) rejecting from 25k messages
 Av> from Google... there was so much spam etc... the server went from
 Av> around 500k total messages handled per day and is now down to around
 Av> 190k per day, a bifg drop.

 I have a couple of newsgroups on my BBS, pulled down from a news server
 (not gated) and this morning was greeted with a couple of groups' worth
 of messages with no spam. This could bode well.

 I'm just looking forward to not seeing my BBS ads intended for a
 fixed-width font displaying in Arial on a web page.   :)


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