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From: dpb on 22 Dec 2009 19:54 Tim Prince wrote: > Terence wrote: >> Would someone like to write to Google and offer to moderate this Forum >> from the Google -access viewpoint? >> >> Apparently one can write to Google about a non-owned Forum and request >> or offer delete privileges (can be a shared duty). Then you aprove or >> not the new day's items. > Being in close proximity to Google, and using individual.net since news > servers in our state were shut down, my news reader tends to save me the > trouble of seeing Google spam, while letting through a much higher > proportion of good stuff. You'd have to find someone with a reliable > news feed but no filtering, if any such thing exists. Any number of them for pay and some free have at least reasonable filtering... news.eternal-september.org news.aioe.org are two of the free newsservers I've used. --
From: Tim Prince on 22 Dec 2009 20:05 aeroguy wrote: > On Dec 23, 3:23 am, Terence <tbwri...(a)cantv.net> wrote: >> Would someone like to write to Google and offer to moderate this Forum >> from the Google -access viewpoint? >> >> Apparently one can write to Google about a non-owned Forum and request >> or offer delete privileges (can be a shared duty). Then you aprove or >> not the new day's items. > > If anything like this exists, i would like to share the > responsibility.... > BUt i think this is a Usenet group and this kind of moderation is not > available... just guessing though. > I think Terence means Google allowing someone to moderate what comes to the newsgroup from their site. Don't really understand why they won't do some automatic filtering for anyone but their own people. They send more spam here than even cantv.net does.
From: Arjan on 23 Dec 2009 15:01 I just sent a request to groups-support(a)google.com to check our status and take action. Don't know if this address, which I took from the FAQ, points into the right direction. In case more than nothing returns, you'll be the first to know! A.
From: user1 on 23 Dec 2009 17:51 feenberg wrote: > On Dec 22, 5:23 pm, Terence<tbwri...(a)cantv.net> wrote: >> Would someone like to write to Google and offer to moderate this Forum >> from the Google -access viewpoint? >> >> Apparently one can write to Google about a non-owned Forum and request >> or offer delete privileges (can be a shared duty). Then you aprove or >> not the new day's items. > > Before October 5th of 2009 spam in the Google Groups version of > comp.lang.fortran was always removed within 24 hours, and was not a > serious problem. No spam messages have been removed since that date > from comp.lang.fortran, although many other Usenet groups sill get > cleaned up promptly. Not so. The spam complaint threads posted here go well before that date. A large amount of spam, stuff that had been around for some time, was in fact deleted in late September. Some people were on the verge of rejoicing. Sadly, more has been slowly accumulating.
From: aeroguy on 23 Dec 2009 23:19
On Dec 24, 1:01 am, Arjan <arjan.van.d...(a)rivm.nl> wrote: > I just sent a request to groups-supp...(a)google.com to check our status > and take action. Don't know if this address, which I took from the > FAQ, points into the right direction. In case more than nothing > returns, you'll be the first to know! > > A. One simple option that google can impliment to combat span is , if the message contains a link. It should be moderated...or someone posting should get a CAPTCHA code they must enter. Since most of the span is link related, thats the door google should block!!! |