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
Google Groups finally shut down, around Noon on February 22.
I too suspected they'd wait a while longer but the axe just fell.
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