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Old October 12th 20, 10:07 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.transport,uk.railway
[email protected] boltar@nuttyella.co.uk is offline
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 08:20:50 -0000 (UTC)
Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 01:56:55 +0100
Certes wrote:
On 11/10/2020 17:19, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:02:42 on Sun, 11 Oct
It's the broker who adds Usenet to that portfolio, and frankly the
spammers don't have much of an incentive to try to reduce the price by
asking them to desist from spamming Usenet.

Perhaps they have never heard of Usenet but target Google Groups, seeing
Google as a young trendy company with products attractive to drug users.
From their perspective, Google Groups used to run a forum called
uk.railway which has now been banned by Google and no longer exists.


Can only be a good thing long term. I suspect the only people who access
this group via google is the spammers.


No, there were legitimate users as well — hence this thread on uk.transprt.

One person who may or may not be missed is Marcus Potter. He kept telling
us how computer literate he was, so I wonder if he'll find a way back?


If his idea of computer literacy is just using a web browser then probably not.
But while aioe.org is still free to use there's no excuse for people with
a bit of IT nous not being on usenet.