[Info-vax] A cry for help

[bill]

On 11/4/2023 2:40 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/4/2023 1:52 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 04/11/2023 16:42, bill wrote:
>>> Some one has to be providing Google with a feed.  The answer is to get
>>> all of them to stop providing any kind of connection to Google.
>>
>> I reckon they get there own feed
> 
> We have two parties here:
> * X NNTP servers
> * Google
> 
> If *all* of the X NNTP servers stop talking to Google, then
> the X NNTP servers will not see posts from Google and Google
> will not see posts from the X NNTP servers.
> 
> If only X-1 stop talking to Google, then no impact.
> 
> Note that I am not recommending the solution. It actually happens
> that relevant stuff get posted via Google and spam should be handled
> by spam filter not be splitting up.
> 

I take it you have never had to admin a USENET News Server.  :-)

Chris was right.  When one wants to setup a News server one of the
main requirements is to find peers (at least one!).  This involves
a person to person agreement to send and receive news.  While it is
theoretically possible to run a receive only news server there is no
other way to inject messages into the News system without having a
peer who is already in the system and willing to accept your posts.
When I did this (and my time with USENET goes back to when we were
doing it over POTS) one of the first things a peer was likely to
require was SPAM control.  I do not understand why Google gets away
with this crap.  I guess like everything else in the IT world there
really are no more rules.  Welcome to anarchy.

bill