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From: William R. Walsh on 27 Apr 2010 16:40
Hi!

> You are both delusional.

No, I've definitely noticed the effect. The spam will stop...for a
short period of time.

I don't assume that anyone within Google ever actually looks at these
reports, please don't assume that on my part.

But the question that I asked--and the question I'd so badly like an
answer to--is why the spammer keeps coming back? I've seen these same
knockoff goods people on other newsgroups and they do go away. They
usually *stay* away too.

So what do you make of that? I think someone's actually buying this
stuff from them! (I realize exactly how that sounds, don't you worry.)

> It takes a spammer 3ns to get another Google account
> USING THE SAME EMAIL ADDRESS HE WAS USING
> and he's right back at it.

No kidding!

> GOOGLE DOESN'T CARE
> --just long as they are making money.
> Google Groups is where they sent their rejects and retards.

I don't know if that's true or not. It could be. I certainly don't
trust them, hence:
http://greyghost.mooo.com/tor/tor-box.html

I'll tell you right now they don't like that, and the behavior of
their search engine is a tacit admission of such. Suits me fine!

> You need access to Port 119.http://keir.net/portlist.html
> (not blocked by the IT department).

If you're talking to me:

1. I *have* access to a real news server through my ISP. I said that
already. :-)

2. There are very good reasons why the other issue is the way it is.

William
From: Ken Layton on 28 Apr 2010 00:04
What spam? I access through Google, but I have the free "Trollkiller"
program installed. Let's me filter out by username and/or keywords.

http://www.source9.com/trollkiller.html

With Trollkiller installed, virtually all spam is gone.

For older operating systems there is also this free killfile program:

http://www.holysmoke.org/ggf/index.htm

From: William R. Walsh on 28 Apr 2010 11:36
Hi!

> It looks as tho .yahoo is next for the spam bin.

That's something else I hadn't touched on...I'm also loathe to start
wholesalely blocking not so much because of my own interests but also
because there are people who for whatever reason will come here via
Google Groups or with a freely provided e-mail address who really do
need help with something.

Whether anyone would care to admit it or not, Google Groups is the one
"immediately obvious" choice for many of these people who have no idea
what Usenet is* or who have been unceremoniously booted off of the
real deal by their ISP.

I can put up with some annoyance (and I've developed some pretty good
filters that are catching 96% or so of the offending posts) if it
means being able to help someone out with a problem or question.

William

* yes, I know that some of these people behave in a dumb fashion.
However, there are some that don't suffer from that despite not
knowing what Usenet really is.
From: Les Matthew on 29 Apr 2010 13:21
On 27/04/2010 00:37, propman wrote:
> On 26/04/2010 2:20 PM, rubbishrat wrote:
>> Can nothing be done about the spam that is choking the life out of
>> this newsgroup ?
>
> You might want to look into using an alternate newsgroup provider such
> as news.eternal-september.org (free access); they filter out 95% of the
> junk.
>
>

http://www.eternal-september.org/

I'll second that.

Started using them after clara.net stopped its text only news service
and the drop in spam is noticeable. Actually, it's very noticeable. :)

les...
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