[ih] google groups going away feb 22

[John Levine]

It appears that Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> said:
>On 17-Jan-24 06:03, Eberhard W Lisse via Internet-history wrote:
>> The amount of spam one gets on those groups is irritating.
>
>But people have been saying that since before alt. was invented (1987?).

Google Groups sends so much spam to Usenet that a lot of nodes (mine)
already drop all their messages because it's not worth picking out the
trickle of real ones. Google apparently decided it wasn't worth the
effort to police the spammers in Groups, so it's just cutting the last
threads of the cord.

Now that the world considers Usenet to be dead, the rest of the
spammers have mostly gone away and the remaining newsgroups are quite
active and useful.  Think of it as a mostly text version of Mastodon.

R's,
John