From: recip...@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 2:17:11 PM UTC-6, JE Corbett wrote:   
   > Could Google's decision to prohibit posting have anything to do with the    
   > recent outbreak of spam. I participate in two other unmoderated groups. One    
   > hasn't yet been flooded by spam and the other one always was. Google makes    
   > money from advertising and maybe they don't want people freeloading by    
   > spamming unmoderated groups.   
      
   Effective Spam filtering has been around for a long time, so forum spam   
   shouldn't be hard to remove in the background.    
      
   I'm more inclined to believe that Google can't monetize Usenet enough to want   
   to support it. They may intend to do away with groups altogether in the end,   
   and ditching nntp is just the first step.   
      
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