[151802] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Fri Mar 30 22:49:33 2012
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1203301927470.2201@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:48:58 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
Cc: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, nanog@nanog.org,
Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
> Perhaps because the pr0n and w4rez are just bits on the wire for most
> operators, not terabytes of disk space on servers we own.
pr0n, w4rez, and other large binaries encoded with UUENCODE are easy
to identify and block.
It's not pr0n that's killing Usenet, the problem is spam
junk mail
chain letters
E-mail address harvesters (where you get bombarded with direct-emailed
crap if you dare post a message to USENET).
And the like.
The advantage 'forum sites' have is, you don't reveal your e-mail
address to the public when posting.
And automated spam sending can be mitigated through the use of CAPTCHAs.
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-JH
