Re: What's happened to this NG?

Bill Putney wrote:

Bill wrote:
Unfortunately, this along with most other newsgroups are getting all
kinds of spam mail, most listed over and over again. Other newsgroups,
from music, to radios to cars, all are being affected. Just my
observation.

Maybe the news server I use filters those sort of things out - I see
very little of that here. But the volume of on-topic posting here seems
to have fallen off over the months.

There has been a deluge of spam posts across most of Usenet lately. Nearly
all of these messages are originating from google groups, so filtering out
google groups helps the signal to noise ratio tremendously. Although there
are web based alternatives, I really like the newsgroup as a common place to
share information using the reader of our choice, but a standard group. Web
sites can come and go, but google has been great at providing a common
archive that is readily searchable to find past suggestions and
informationn.

That being said, there are some great LH web forums out there that are very
useful.

Hopefully this spam will be cut off soon. Usenet has been patrolled by
volunteers for years that have cancelled spam/unsolicited sales messages and
made the groups useful for legitimate users. They appear be overwhelmed at
the moment, but I'm sure google itself could come up with a solution.

.

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