Pretty much the question. I heard about Usenet a while back but never managed to wrap my head around it.

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    9 months ago

    Heh, yeah.

    Google does a great job stopping spam in Gmail so they could stop it if they wanted but… Just haven’t. Super lame.

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        9 months ago

        Someone made the calculation that the data harvested for advertisers is more valuable than the hosting/maintenance expense they would recoup by killing it. Plus it’s tasty food for Bard.