From: david.brown@hesbynett.no   
      
   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.   
      
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