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On 11/28/2013 11:37 AM, rusi wrote:
> Do you realize that that person was not using GG?

I do but he was using usenet.

> IOW we are unfortunately conflating two completely unrelated things:
> 1. GG has some technical problems which are fairly easy to solve
> 2. All kinds of people hop onto the list. In addition to genuine ones there are 
>    spammers, trolls, dicks, nuts, philosophers, help-vampires etc etc.

What they have in common is usenet.  Ditching usenet would solve both
problems.