On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:15:08 -1000, dsi1
> wrote:

> On 4/3/2012 7:21 AM, sf wrote:
> >
> > Did anyone else on E-S get a flood of 2-4 day old posts today? It
> > seems like E-S has been messing up longer than that, but I downloaded
> > four times the usual number of new messages with no flood of spam so
> > maybe they've fixed whatever has been wrong.
> >
>
> G**gle stopped relaying messages posted on their domain from last
> Thursday to yesterday. Some newsgroups, like this one, were not affected
> much. In others which have a lot of GG posters, it was very noticeable.
> It was still posting Usenet messages, in essence, making Usenet a subset
> of GG. It was an interesting experiment. My guess is that sooner or
> later, it's going to be a permanent arrangement.

Okay, thanks. Well, that will eliminate the spam from GG's issue
then. There are enough free news readers and free to almost free news
servers that those who want to stay with us can do so.

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