Spam Causes Microsoft To Kill Newsgroups

eldavojohn writes "Some 2,000 public and 2,200 private newsgroups devoted to and managed by Microsoft support are going to be phased out in favor of forums because of newsgroup spam. The Register calls it 'killing newsgroups' but Microsoft eloquently calls it 'the evolution of communities.' Always managing to spin it in a positive light! Let's hope the spam posts and voting bots in their forums remain controllable."

Re:What's the problem?

[Shakrai]

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Repost?

[erroneous]

I think this a repost from 1995.

Didn't *everyone* stop using newsgroups about then?

Stupid Spammers

[Culture20]

Remember, a successful parasite doesn't kill the host, or make the host want to kill itself. Ramp down your spam relays or you're going to lose your host media. Eventually even email will become a burden again; I'm having to check three tiered spam filters for legit mail, and more spam is getting through all three while a little legit mail is getting caught in different filters.

Re:What's the problem?

[Inda]

I'm just amazed to learn that people can post text messages on Usenet!

In all my years of navigating a.b.*, I have never seen one!