Re: Google Groups Spam Continues

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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote at 07:58 this Saturday (GMT):
> On 2026-04-18, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> I thought Google Groups was defunct. But it appears you can still set
>> up mailing lists through it. And some spammers have been taking
>> advantage of this.
> [...]
>> Can’t think why Google would permit this sort of thing to continue ...
>
> If they really cared, they'd have addressed that problem when it was
> brought up, instead of just ending the USENET peering.


I guess it was really that expensive to run a USENET server. To be fair,
I don't know a single person who still cares about GG, but Google
famously loves killing off services (google graveyard) so I'm surprised
it's still going.
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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Google Groups Spam Continues Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-18 07:02 +0000
  Re: Google Groups Spam Continues Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-18 08:58 +0100
    Re: Google Groups Spam Continues candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-04-28 19:00 +0000
  Re: Google Groups Spam Continues Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-04-18 11:52 +0200
  Re: Google Groups Spam Continues JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2026-04-19 15:26 +0700
    Re: Google Groups Spam Continues Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-04-19 17:32 +0200
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          Re: Google Groups Spam Continues oldernow <oldernow@dev.null> - 2026-04-20 01:26 +0000
        Re: Google Groups Spam Continues Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-19 22:16 +0000
        Re: Google Groups Spam Continues Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-04-22 20:03 +0200
    Re: Google Groups Spam Continues kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-04-19 16:11 -0400
    Re: Google Groups Spam Continues Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-19 22:15 +0000

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