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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 31 Mar 2012 08:55:48 +0200
It's not pr0n that's killing Usenet, the problem is spam junk mail, chain letters
I gather you haven't looked at usenet for a long time. The spam and chain letters have followed the crowd. I can't remember the last time I saw a chain letter, and there's surprisingly little spam.
E-mail address harvesters (where you get bombarded with direct-emailed crap if you dare post a message to USENET).
Spam sucks, but I've been posting to usenet with my real unmunged email address since 1981 and my inbox remains entirely usable. The idea that the way to avoid spam is to hide from spammers is so 1990s.
Regards, John Levine, johnl () iecc com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US, (continued)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Rich Kulawiec (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Alex Ryu (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US K. Scott Bethke (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jay Ashworth (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US John Levine (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jon Lewis (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Miles Fidelman (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jimmy Hess (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US JC Dill (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US John R. Levine (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Michael Rathbun (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Landon Stewart (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jay Ashworth (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Rich Kulawiec (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Justin M. Streiner (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Miles Fidelman (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US JC Dill (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Miles Fidelman (Mar 30)
- RE: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US George Bonser (Mar 30)