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RSD spam

Much of the conversation and updates in the Ultimate Frisbee community happens through the antiquated and aging technology of Usenet and NNTP on a newsgroup named rec.sport.disc.  The most popular way to access newsgroups these days is through their syndication on Google Groups.  Unfortunately as of February Google’s captcha has been cracked which means that spammers can now post whatever they want onto Google Groups.  I took way too much time to make a couple graphs visualizing the spam problem and thought I would share them with everyone below.

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