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    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 24 17:08:23 2024
    I am really looking forward to google dropping usenet.
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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Wed Jan 24 10:49:27 2024
    On 1/24/2024 9:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    I am really looking forward to google dropping usenet.

    Speeding that up sounds like a good reason to invent a time machine.

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  • From WolfFan@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Thu Jan 25 22:08:07 2024
    On Jan 24, 2024, James Nicoll wrote
    (in article <uorg67$qoi$[email protected]>):

    I am really looking forward to google dropping usenet.

    Supernews has been having serious problems with the spam deluge. Eternal September blocks almost all of it.

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  • From Paul S Person@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 26 09:27:15 2024
    On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:08:07 -0500, WolfFan <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Jan 24, 2024, James Nicoll wrote
    (in article <uorg67$qoi$[email protected]>):

    I am really looking forward to google dropping usenet.

    Supernews has been having serious problems with the spam deluge. Eternal >September blocks almost all of it.

    In fact, the only places I've seen it lately ... is in posts quoting
    the title in their own. The original posts are not coming through.
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    Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
    Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"

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  • From WolfFan@21:1/5 to Paul S Person on Sun Jan 28 11:04:53 2024
    On Jan 26, 2024, Paul S Person wrote
    (in article<[email protected]>):

    On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:08:07 -0500, WolfFan<[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On Jan 24, 2024, James Nicoll wrote
    (in article <uorg67$qoi$[email protected]>):

    I am really looking forward to google dropping usenet.

    Supernews has been having serious problems with the spam deluge. Eternal September blocks almost all of it.

    In fact, the only places I've seen it lately ... is in posts quoting
    the title in their own. The original posts are not coming through.

    Oh, a few spams got through earlier today. I suspect that the spammer is. adjusting his targeting.

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