David T. Bilek wrote:
> On 19 Mar 2008 17:00:11 GMT, "Default User" <defaultuserbr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
> > Charlton Wilbur wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Time to globally plonk Google Groups again, methinks.
> >
> > Haven't seen any of this. Either news.individual.net is getting it,
> > or my own filter set is.
> >
>
> Ditto; I'm not seeing it but it's because of my filters. Which works
> for me. My concern would be new readers will not take the time to
> create filters so that they can get to know the newsgroup. No new
> readers is a recipe for a dwindling to extinction forum.
>
> Of course I'm not sure that usenet gets any new readers anyway.
Well, new users are coming in through, you guessed it, Google Groups.
If Google would shut the doors on the spammers, they'd be a positive
force. As it is, they just don't care, so it's eroding things. New
users that start with GG find some groups (many have no realization of
the difference between a Google forum and usenet groups) polluted with
spam and nothing they can do, so they leave.
We get lots of legitimate new users via GG in the programming groups.
It's the usenet method of choice for India and China.
Brian
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If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
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