[Info-vax] Posts

[Michael S]

On Fri, 24 May 2024 08:48:47 -0400
bill <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/24/2024 8:30 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > On 2024-05-23, Robert Komar <robk at robpc4.robk-home.org> wrote:  
> >> I wonder how many left usenet in disgust during the spam barrage
> >> a few months ago?  Many other newsgroups have grown quiet at
> >> the same time.
> >>  
> > 
> > That's a very good point. I had forgotten about that.
> > 
> > Simon.
> >   
> 
> If you had a decent news server rather than using something free
> (you get what you pay for!!) there was little if any SPAM barrage.
> It only took mine (for a whopping $10 a year) about three days to
> figure it out and end it.
> 
> bill
> 

I think, the opposite is true.
Those who used decent free news servers, esp. i2pn2.org, suffered less
than those who were using cheap news servers. 
May be, your cheap server was an exception.