[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-12 Thread John H. Reinhardt via cctalk
On 3/9/2024 1:50 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. Zane Eternal September and Thunderbird (I'm on a Mac) have been weird for me for a while.  For example I have had no new

[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Mar 9, 2024, at 2:19 PM, Dennis Boone via cctalk > wrote: > >> Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC >> newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. > > There has been a huge flood of spam originating from google, in various > newsgroups, for a few

[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Mar 9, 2024, at 1:16 PM, Stuff Received via cctalk > wrote: > > On 2024-03-09 14:50, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC newsgroups >> appear to be missing from Eternal September. >> Zane > > I just subscribed to comp.os.vms

[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Dennis Boone via cctalk
> Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC > newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. There has been a huge flood of spam originating from google, in various newsgroups, for a few months. I saw 15,000 one day in comp.os.vms alone. This problem has

[cctalk] Re: Did something happen to comp.os.vms ?

2024-03-09 Thread Stuff Received via cctalk
On 2024-03-09 14:50, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Did something happen to comp.os.vms and/or usenet? All the DEC newsgroups appear to be missing from Eternal September. Zane I just subscribed to comp.os.vms on Eternal-September without issue. All seems well. S.