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  • Re: google prediction

    From Ted@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 20 15:48:56 2024
    On 2/19/2024 10:23 AM, D wrote:
    the only prediction thus far is that google shall decommission their usenet gateway as they announced last 14 december to be effective 15 february 2024 then moved the goal posts to the persisting expectation of 22 february 2024, so they can easily modify their public announcement without previous notice and keep doing that until the cows come home . . . if and when their usenet gateway is actually disconnected, then dozens of spam-friendly news servers could experience a measurable increase in spam, troll-farm infestation, etc. certainly some news server administrators may be motivated to tighten their restrictions on cross-posting, user registration requirements, and throttle server access to limit use and potential abuse; simply limiting cross-posts to five (5) and depeering any servers that allow more would be a good start, better if crossposting were eliminated altogether, but it will get stricter


    And Usenet will be 100% better for it.

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Feb 20 22:11:30 2024
    In article <ur337q$1u4tt$[email protected]>,
    Ted <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2/19/2024 10:23 AM, D wrote:
    the only prediction thus far is that google shall decommission their usenet >> gateway as they announced last 14 december to be effective 15 february 2024 >> then moved the goal posts to the persisting expectation of 22 february 2024, >> so they can easily modify their public announcement without previous notice >> and keep doing that until the cows come home . . . if and when their usenet >> gateway is actually disconnected, then dozens of spam-friendly news servers >> could experience a measurable increase in spam, troll-farm infestation, etc. >> certainly some news server administrators may be motivated to tighten their >> restrictions on cross-posting, user registration requirements, and throttle >> server access to limit use and potential abuse; simply limiting cross-posts >> to five (5) and depeering any servers that allow more would be a good start, >> better if crossposting were eliminated altogether, but it will get stricter >>

    And Usenet will be 100% better for it.


    Hear! Hear!! Spot on!
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