From: richard.nospam@gmail.invalid   
      
   On 20/02/2024 13:05, David Brown wrote:   
   > On 20/02/2024 04:21, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   >> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  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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