I still am on USENET since the 90s. Although I love it for its simplicity, its protocol was conceived when the Internet was almost exclusively populated by educ

I still am on USENET since the 90s. Although I love it for its simplicity, its protocol was conceived when the Internet was almost exclusively populated by educated people. As a result, it has no antibodies against trolls and spammers and can be exploited very easily. I believe we'd have no other choice than to extend the NNTP protocol with some form of protection against that, otherwise as soon as a group attracts a number of people, it will immediately be targeted by spammers, scammers and trolls.