What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)?
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Pretty much the question. I heard about Usenet a while back but never managed to wrap my head around it.
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Pretty much the question. I heard about Usenet a while back but never managed to wrap my head around it.
Not having any experience with this I find it hilarious that most of the spam comes from googlegroups
Heh, yeah.
Google does a great job stopping spam in Gmail so they could stop it if they wanted but... Just haven't. Super lame.
I’m just amazed they haven’t shut down Google groups by now…
Someone made the calculation that the data harvested for advertisers is more valuable than the hosting/maintenance expense they would recoup by killing it. Plus it's tasty food for Bard.