Re: AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, GK wrote:

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Let's face it - the majority of USENET users these days are SPAMmers.

We'll probably also see a lot of the free injection points start losing
upstreams as companies shutter their value-added newswervers.

On the other hand, by forcing diehard newshounds onto pay services, it
all but assures they won't be spammers. Trolls, maybe, but not spammers.
;-)

Well, I guess there's Google Groups too ... hmmm.

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This is where Google Groups provides its own unwanted censorship.
There are entire newsgroups that Google Groups makes believe do not exist, maybe because they might not be politically correct, but it is outright censorship on behalf of GooGroups to eliminate entire groups at their discretion.

I have never heard of Google censoring anything on Google Groups. Do you have any examples?

Personally I question how long Google will choose to maintain GG.

John

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