Default User wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> Theron wrote:
>>
>> > I've noticed in the past month or so that less are posting on
>> > this, and other large broad subject NGs. And, the spam
>> > content is up. Is this due to the major ISPs stopping USENET
>> > as part of your subscription. Could this be the end of wide
>> > interest large usegroups such as ours. It's unfortunate. I
>> > wish there was a solution to this.
>>
>> On the other side of the coin, such a culling does reduce the
>> number of users who aren't even clued enough about the medium
>> to simply use another news server.
>
> And also culls out new blood, and that's the death of any group.

Not clued new blood.

> As time goes by, many regulars will reduce their contributions
> or stop altogether. Without replacement, the group withers away.
> Like it or not, GG is the main entry for new posters. By
> shutting them out, you kill your own group. Slowly but surely.
>
> Your campaign to "punish" GG users is doomed, and will only hurt
> what you want to protect.

I'm not "punishing" anyone. Taking their computers away from them
would be punishing them. Setting them afire would be punishing
them. Waterboardng them would be punishing them.

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