wrote:
On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 11:32:43 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:
Or you could just use a different news server. Usenet is a distributed system

and thankfully, Google does not control it, they just offer access. I was
able
to add uk.railway from astraweb and downloaded over 1m headers.

Spam in unmoderated Usenet groups has been around since the beginning of
time.
The traditional way of dealing with it is a newsreader than offers reasonable

keyword and baysean filtering.


Unfortunately there are people who think that usenet groups are part of
Google Groups, and not something that existed long before Google was
invented. So when GG cuts off access to a usenet group, because of all the
drug spam that was being injected via GG, those people think the group is
dead and gone, hence the misleading title of this thread.


I'm curious as to which drug dealers are so dumb they think the demographic
on usenet would be the slightest bit interested in their wares. They'd be
far better off spamming snapchat or tiktok in some way.



I'm pretty sure their automated scripts simply target the few groups that
still have much traffic. They probably pay little attention to its subject,
though I notice that a few did seem to acknowledge that it was a uk group.
That's obviously something that might be automated, too.

We don't know, of course, how many of them actually have drugs to sell, or
if they're just after the punters' money. They might just be the successors
of the Nigerian princes with a fortune to share.