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    From J@J@M to soc.men on Tue Feb 20 19:12:36 2024
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    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

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  • From will.dockery@will.dockery@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Will-Dockery) to soc.men on Fri Feb 23 06:49:31 2024
    From Newsgroup: soc.men


    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.


    This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=661137877#661137877


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