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		hackernewds on Dec 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Groups ending support for Usenet that sounds ripe to get spammed, since the superset of things to be filtered is borderline infinite when it is opt-in

daotoad on Dec 15, 2023 [–]

That's why the term "spam" was invented to describe USENET spam.

USENET comes from a more innocent time, when few institutions had firewalls, open (SMTP) mail relays were pretty common, and people logged into their systems over telnet.

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