konversation keeps getting owned

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/3/29, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> Richard A. Johnson wrote:
>
>  > On Saturday 29 March 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>  > [...]
>  > | > Plus only one post in every 142,000 isn't spam.
>  >
>  > Seeing as I maintain quite a few mailing lists for Ubuntu, I would have to
>  > disagree with this statement. I would say 2 in 142,000, or 1 in every
>  > 71,000 isn't spam :p
>
>
> Well, we were talking about Usenet, and while that might be true of the
>  posts actually submitted to nntp, if you go through a good service like
>  Individual.net, they manage to catch the vast majority of it.
>
>
>  > | Not even close.  You just have to use a reliable news service.  However,
>  > | I wasn't really thinking of Usenet, but either dedicated NNTP servers
>  > | (as some vendors use) or gated news like gmane - which is strictly mail
>  > | lists, but slower :-).
>  >
>  > People still use usenet? I mean of course except for that pr0n stuff.
>
>
> Individual.net doesn't even carry the pr0n stuff - which no doubt accounts
>  for its general reliability - and is _very_ busy.  There's lots of Usenet
>  around still.
>
> --
>  derek
>

Google groups isn't that usenet but with a web interface?