google groups/google search

[D]

as a layman i'm inclined to ask naive questions . . . have google groups posts
affected google search rankings, possibly independent of their nearly obsolete
usenet connection which might help to explain the incomparably vast quantities
of spam passed along to usenet newsgroups without any regard whatsoever to the
irreparable consequences they have wrought against unwary users of this user's
network? some might say it's deliberate, "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics

[jmcquown]

I have no idea about Google group search rankings. There has been a
flood of Google Groups spam to some Usenet newsgroups in the wake of the
announcement of the discontinuation of posting to Usenet via Googe
Groups. (Filters have always helped with those idiots spamming the
groups.) All we can do is hope it stops and they don't find another
venue for flooding the groups with their crap posts.

Jill