Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan Purgert Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 19:08:51 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <87wmttqsht.fsf@yaxenu.org> Injection-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 19:08:51 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fccd2ec5fb1dbdef68e99a9331d80b74"; logging-data="382336"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/HGDSKN2Skhg9IycAxHRGvi6XOZiy+Scs=" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BKv79vq9sK7Os0ivEtG9r1HRppM= Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:23608 On 2023-12-05, Scott Dorsey wrote: > In article <87wmttqsht.fsf@yaxenu.org>, Julieta Shem wrote: >>kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes: >> >>> Julieta Shem wrote: >>>> >>>>Nothing at all. Why don't USENET administrators deny relaying to >>>>Google? Perhaps because at least one of them doesn't agree with that? >>>>Perhaps because Google pays someone to get the messages? Because, look, >>>>if I were an NNTP administrator, I would not let Google download >>>>anything from me. :-) >>> >>> Plenty admins do exactly that. Tell yours to do so. But there are many >>> sites that have dropped google postings for years. >>> --scott >> >>My server is Eternal September's. I went to their website and saw their >>mentioning news.admin.net-abuse.usenet. There's a recent there about >>this very subject and you're in it. I'd think Eternal September is well >>aware of it all way more than I am. > > Eternal September is doing a pretty good job of filtering the crap, but > they are a large site which has a lot of labour available to manage > filters. You can be sure when a group like comp.protocols.time.ntp which I'm pretty sure Ray is the extent of the e-s "team" ... -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: DDAB 23FB 19FA 7D85 1CC1 E067 6D65 70E5 4CE7 2860