Re: Test

From	Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: Test
Date	2024-02-20 18:28 +0000
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On 20/02/2024 13:05, David Brown wrote:
> On 20/02/2024 04:21, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:41:52 +0000, Mike Terry wrote:
>>>
>>>> Google has removed write access to certain GG gropus ...
>>>
>>> All hail the imminent extinction of the Google Gropus!
>>
>> Google Groups will still exist.  What's being removed is its interface
>> to Usenet -- though articles posted before the cutoff will still be
>> available (until they decide they don't want to maintain that either).
>>
>> I would have preferred if they had continued accepting articles from
>> other servers while cutting off the ability to post, so they could
>> continue to provide an up-to-date archive, but that's not what they did.
>>
> 
> Even better, they could have found a way to stop the spam so that people 
> who wanted to use Google Groups to post, could still have done so.  All 
> they really needed to do was introduce some delays - if you create a new 
> account, you cannot post to Usenet in the first 24 hours.  And accounts 
> used to post to Usenet need to have two-factor authentication enabled. 
> That would pretty much end all but the most dedicated of spammers and 
> trolls, while still allowing those that used GG to post by necessity.
> 
> 

Simply rate limiting would've helped.  Nobody posting 10 articles a 
second is involved in any kind of conversation.

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Test Paul N <gw7rib@aol.com> - 2024-02-19 05:40 -0800
  Re: Test Mike Terry <news.dead.person.stones@darjeeling.plus.com> - 2024-02-19 15:41 +0000
    Re: Test Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-02-20 01:39 +0000
      Re: Test Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-02-19 19:21 -0800
        Re: Test David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-02-20 14:05 +0100
          Re: Test Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> - 2024-02-20 18:28 +0000

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