Can
Spammers Benefit Usenet? -
It may be sacrilege to suggest the
following, but in the right
circumstance, I believe that spammers
have the capacity to benefit Usenet. I'm
not referring to the spammers who sell
authentic Rolex watches, Harvard
doctorate degrees, or erectile
dysfunction cures, but the folks who
operate adult entertainment websites.
Yes you heard correctly, porn sites, but
before you spew coffee on your keyboard
and fire off a "WTF!!!" email to the
NewsAdmin staff, hear us out for a
moment.
As you may know there is an adult
component of the Usenet community where
people exchange erotic stories, images
and videos across several thousand
newsgroups. Participants will share
their homegrown amateur content within
these groups, while sharing space with
adult businesses that post content to
raise awareness for their commercial
websites. In most cases the promotional
content is poor quality, off-topic, and
contributes nothing of value to the
newsgroups, which does not sit well with
Usenet users and service providers. As a
result providers make an effort to
remove the commercial posts from their
news servers, and end-users either kill
filter or ignore any of the content that
manages to sneak into their favorite
groups.
This game of cat-and-mouse has been
tolerated for years, but it's not the
most productive or efficient
arrangement. Usenet providers expend
resources filtering unwanted content and
answering abuse...
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Can Spammers Benefit Usenet?
