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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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