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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by cat199 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:15AM (#22318311)
many interesting usenet groups were long dead before that due to spam... the things you mention are more like pulling life support than the cause of death
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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by takeda on Thursday February 13, 2020 @10:23AM (#22318372)
Spam started when Google acquired DejaNews renamed it to Google Groups, and have Usenet access to everyone without responding to any abuse complaints.
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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by webmaven on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:08AM (#22318789)
That's a bit ahistorical. The "September that never ended"[0] (aka "Eternal September") was in 1993, the Canter and Siegel Usenet spam[1] was sent the following April. The DejaNews acquisition[2] wan't until 2001.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by kps on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:03AM (#22318763)
Usenet spam started in 1994, before DejaNews existed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by iso1631 on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:01AM (#22318742)
Not sure, wiki puts that as 2001, and I remember being annoyed with spam in the 90s.

I think the rise of web-based forums is what killed off usenet as a general tool.

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