Martin X. Moleski, SJ schrieb:
I'm a happy and satisfied user of many of Google's services.

if you don't care much about privacy ...

We owe them a debt of gratitude for saving the Dejanews
archives and for maintaining them.

they sure haven't done it because they love the community so much.
they've done it because they have seen some sort of business.

Usenet isn't a big part of their business any more.
There are tradeoffs involved in offering free services
to all and sundry.

On balance, I think the good they
do far outweighs the bad.

IBTD.
I would suggest a (passive) UDP to bring them either off usenet or to a
better abuse desk.

Of course, YMMV.

indeed.

Marty

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