[Info-vax] OT(?) how to report spam coming via Google Groups?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <9ol8q4F6f7U1 at mid.individual.net>, Dick Hendrickson
<dick.hendrickson at att.net> writes: 

> > It's probably too optimistic to expect an email address, though that
> > would be nice.  Doe anyone know of an email address or URL where one can
> > report spam which is appearing in usenet and coming (as far as I can
> > tell) via Google Groups?
> >
> This comes up every few months now; CLF 

Among the groups I read, ONLY CLF.

> has been getting spammed for a 
> year or so.  I don't think there is a way to complain to google other 
> than reporting messages as spam or abuse on a message by message basis. 

I can't even figure out how to do that.  All of their complaint stuff 
appears to be geared to EMAIL messages, not newsgroups.

>   A few people (including me) have been spending a little time each day 
> using the google-groups interface to mark the days spam.  It's easy 
> enough to do (I'm retired and haven't got anything else to do ;( ), but 
> I'm not sure it helps.  I think the only real hope is that google gets 
> enough spam reports to interest a human being there in checking things 
> out.

I doubt that is the case, otherwise something would have happened.

> I read CLF via news.individual.net and they filter out all the spam.

Useful, of course, but can have the side-effect of hiding the problem.

FWIW, I read on a news server which honours cancels and so cancel some 
of the stuff; I don't know how much of an effect this has.