Are the clowns still bombarding the group?

Leon <lcb11211@swbelldotnet> wrote in news:- snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

I asked a somewhat odd question, so yes?

No. Google turned off the google groups gateway to usenet in february.

They're all over in alt home repair ..

John T.

snipped-for-privacy@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) was heard to mutter:

Google doesn't control Usenet posts. You "may" se less if you only use Google groups. Welcome to USEnet. Adjust your reality.

The "clowns" in the subject line that Leon referred to were posting using google groups around the turn of the year, the message bodies were mostly in Thai.

Google groups stopped supporting posting to usenet in February, mainly because they weren't interested in policing the posts that originated from GG.

To that extent, they control all usenet posts that originate from Google Groups.

I've been on usenet since 1987.

Obviously not. Your usenet news reader application should be able to show the headers in our posts.

Your headers show that you're using ForteAgent.

snipped-for-privacy@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote in news:e96sO.77739$ewT2.14224 @fx09.iad:

Astraweb... 25 bucks for pretty much unlimited text-based posts. Something like 80 GB of data. For text posts with no fancy formatting, tracking, metrics, advertising, and all the other stuff that businesses love, that's unlimited.

Even reddit is falling. reddit used to be so text-focused it was wonderful. The smarter people usually hung out there--they read chapter books and not picture books.

Puckdropper

Header view optional and I keep them turned off. These days I spend more time with doctors than data.

Yes, the last version of a dying era? 30 years is a good run.

I'd ask how XRN is but you might be a bit partial to it? ;)

I am a fan of the MITSFS Library and TR mag.

Cheers and have a great day. May all the clowns go back to the circus. ;)

The clowns have gone, but the damage they wreaked has made the usual posters disappear, to the point the newsgroup is nearly dead.

I'm not dead yet!

Bring out your dead, bring your dead!

Is that a Monty Python Holy Grail quote?