From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 09:52:36 +0000, Chris Pitt Lewis    
   wrote:   
      
   >On 06/11/2018 06:11, Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> It seems that the gmail accounts of some of the spammers who have been   
   >> pestering several newsgroups have been disabled.   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>    
   >>   
   >> are two of them.   
   >>   
   >> Let's hope the rest get dealt with too.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >Pyrrhic victory though, isn't it, because google groups has now dropped   
   >this group, including apparently its 20 year archive. As the rootsweb   
   >gateway has also gone, and the rootsweb list is broken, hardly anyone   
   >will now find the group, so the on topic postings are lost as well.   
      
   Well isn't that what some members of this group have always wanted?   
   They were always saying that they blocked members who posted via   
   Googlegroups, and were always complaining about people who replied to   
   old messages, so they should be rejoicing at the loss of the archive   
   and the disconnection from GoogleGroups.   
      
      
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