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I remember usenet becoming basically unreadable from the spam and abuse (both commercial and otherwise, everybody's favorite nazi weev did a lot to kill usenet
by GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago
I remember usenet becoming basically unreadable from the spam and abuse (both commercial and otherwise, everybody's favorite nazi weev did a lot to kill usenet back in the day)
- DanBC 12y agoI don't remember weev from any Usenet groups I used. I do remember hipcrime sporges.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 12y agohe was in the gnaa
- DanBC 12y agoYes, I know. I don't remember them from any Usenet groups I used. Hipcrime destroyed many groups until people worked out how to filter the sporges; snuh made a lot of noise across a wide range of groups but didn't have much effect; Meow army disrupted many groups; and obviously alt.syntax.tactical The fact that snuh were more disruptive than gnaa is telling because snuh just wasn't very disruptive. Do you have some search terms?
- anonbanker 12y agoGNAA was the /. era, friend. Usenet was Eternal Septembered by then.