So while some folks may no longer engage with Usenet via Google Groups it will be interesting to see how a post Google peered Usenet evolves.
Avon wrote to All <=-
Well after several months of forewarning and a ton of increased spam coming out of google groups, Google have de-peered from Usenet.
news.bbs.nz was (before they de-peered) rejecting from 25k messages
from Google... there was so much spam etc... the server went from
around 500k total messages handled per day and is now down to around
190k per day, a bifg drop.
Interesting... I have only come back to newsgroups since I picked up BBS last year and I very nearly turned off all the newsgroups I was
subscribed to because of the sheer volume of junk coming in from Google Groups.
A tentatively welcome decision from that point of view, hopefully there's enough "proper" interest to keep Usenet going to a useful degree.
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. :)
Originally I had read that Google just got tired of keeping track of something that people didn't use much anymore. I wasn't even sure if you could post to Usenet using a Google account -thought it was just for archiveal purposes. I actually found my way into BBS' after doing
research through rec.arts.anime.misc. I shouldn't be surprised about the spam, though.
I thought that google shut down their groups a couple of years ago. And
I haven't been on usenet since the ISP's here in the US shut down their news servers. I really miss the *.bin groups.
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