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by jk_i_am_a_robot 1003 days ago
"Can we even go back to Usenet without Google Groups?"

No. Any group that doesn't have some kind of pre-post vetting idiom is going to have spam and abuse problems.

This wasn't always the case and I can't pinpoint exactly when the change happened or what it was.

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I'd suggest Canter & Siegel in 1994.