[Info-vax] Leaving all Google Groups?

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 12/1/2023 6:38 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
>> I joined https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms back in 2006 so
>> 17-years is a pretty good run. But the ongoing SPAM attack that
>> started Oct-1 tells me that this NNTP newsgroup thing has outlived
>> its usefulness.
>
>comp.os.vms usenet group on NNTP servers seems fine.

Depends on your server, but now that the nocem folks have things tuned
pretty well, I am seeing very little spam here.  There are still a few
groups like comp.protocols.time.ntp that aren't dialed in completely yet,
but it's far better than it was last week.

>INFO-VAX mail-list is probably going to be fine.
>
>comp.os.vms Google Groups group may be toast.
>
>Which is bad as some people use Google Groups for
>reading and posting - and many people use it for searching
>old posts.

Agreed.

>> 3) As an alternative, I suggest we all unsubscribe from all Google
>> Groups then continue our conversations on reddit where we will be
>> free to continue our conversation under the OpenVMS sub-reddit. Click
>> here to see what I mean: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenVMS/ Some
>> people might not know that reddit (the first social media company?)
>> was created in 2005 with the intent of dealing with SPAM. In return
>> for free use, the odd reddit message might contain a advert from one
>> of their corporate adverts, but this is nothing like navigating the
>> SPAM we see at comp.os.vms
>
>I am not sure that I see the point.

I think that the person posting that was a Google Groups user who thinks
that the mess is as bad from typical Usenet sites as it is at Google 
Groups.  Google Groups is a terrible way to read comp.os.vms and has been
since Google Groups was created.
--scott

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