Pretty much the question. I heard about Usenet a while back but never managed to wrap my head around it.

  • PlantObserver
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    310 months ago

    Not having any experience with this I find it hilarious that most of the spam comes from googlegroups

    • Rimu
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      310 months ago

      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.

      • @didnt_readit
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        310 months ago

        I’m just amazed they haven’t shut down Google groups by now…

        • Fuck spez
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          310 months ago

          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.