From: J@M 
  
 the only prediction thus far is that google shall decommission their usenet 
 gateway as they announced last 14 december to be effective 15 february 2024 
 then moved the goal posts to the persisting expectation of 22 february 2024, 
 so they can easily modify their public announcement without previous notice 
 and keep doing that until the cows come home . . . if and when their usenet 
 gateway is actually disconnected, then dozens of spam-friendly news servers 
 could experience a measurable increase in spam, troll-farm infestation, etc. 
 certainly some news server administrators may be motivated to tighten their 
 restrictions on cross-posting, user registration requirements, and throttle 
 server access to limit use and potential abuse; simply limiting cross-posts 
 to five (5) and depeering any servers that allow more would be a good start, 
 better if crossposting were eliminated altogether, but it will get stricter 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)