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   The Doctor to no@thanks.net   
   Re: apparently comp.arch, comp.lang.c++,   
   01 Nov 23 03:36:42   
   
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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article ,   
   candycanearter07   wrote:   
   >On 10/31/23 21:09, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:32:11 -0500   
   >> Lynn McGuire  wrote:   
   >>> Apparently comp.arch, comp.lang.c++, and comp.lang.fortran are now read   
   >>> only at google groups to stop the spam floods.   
   >>   
   >> Same as  comp.lang.c  as has been mentioned elsewhere   
   >> (  for example). Good. I   
   >> wonder how that works. Was some algorithm at googlegroups triggered and   
   >> automatically took the measure (or notified a human) or do they have some   
   >> employee at Google regularly take a few minutes of their time once per   
   >> several weeks to have a short look at googlegroups to see how things are   
   >> working ? I will guess the latter because an algorithm would have acted much   
   >> sooner.   
   >   
   >Bad actors ruining legitimate experience because of a half-assed   
   >solution, a tale as old as time.   
      
   Annd Google is the biggest bad actor out there!   
      
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