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by DanBC 4098 days ago
I don't remember weev from any Usenet groups I used. I do remember hipcrime sporges.
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he was in the gnaa
Yes, I know. I don't remember them from any Usenet groups I used.

Hipcrime destroyed many groups until people worked out how to filter the sporges; snuh made a lot of noise across a wide range of groups but didn't have much effect; Meow army disrupted many groups; and obviously alt.syntax.tactical

The fact that snuh were more disruptive than gnaa is telling because snuh just wasn't very disruptive.

Do you have some search terms?

GNAA was the /. era, friend. Usenet was Eternal Septembered by then.