Re: Why the complaints about Google Usenet ? [telecom]

<hancock4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

A number of Usenet posters have made very nasty complaints about
Google Groups, a service where many people, including me, post to
Usenet. I don't understand why. Could someone explain it?


It's pretty simple, really. They are totally unresponsive to complaints.

Therefore, they have become an open portal for posting of USENET spam......which was, incidentally, the original channel for the distribution of spam.

The effort to police Usenet spam is one factor that pushed the spammers over to email. Now that the efforts to curb it there have been much more successful in recent months (due in large part to some legal decisions favoring the ISPs over the spammers), some of them have come back to Usenet. They need a entry portal that does absolutely no screening of new users AND an abuse dept. that is either non-existent or totally incompetent. Google groups seems to serve the purpose nicely.
They are not a good "team player". The reasons are immaterial.

Take your own survey. Look at the spam in the groups you frequent; "commercial" spam, that is.
My unscientific sample indicates 100% of it comes in via Google Groups. That probably isn't true but it IS a VERY large percentage.

Male enhancement not your thing? How about breast enlargement.....or narcotic drugs.....or watch knock-offs....or cheap tennies.... ad infinitum.

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