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Usenet wasn't that bad if you didn't take the binary groups.

> and found out that it consisted in 95% of zombies sending spam you could recognize from the millenium start

I like to imagine a forgotten server, running since the mid-90s, its owners long since imprisoned for tax fraud, still pumping out its daily quota of penis enlagement spam.




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