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

[Kenneth Fairfield]

On Sunday, January 29, 2012 9:16:01 AM UTC-8, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <9ol8q4... at mid.individual.net>, Dick Hendrickson
> <dick.hen... 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.

Then as Dick notes, you must have seen the many threads 
on clf discussing the general issue and various avoidance
techniques.  Are the SPAM posts now leaking through
individual.net and/or eternal-september.org?

> > 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.

Your only hope would be Michael Unger's suggestion to
look for a Complaints-To header given you're using a 
"normal" news reader (as opposed to a Google "tool").

> >   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.

My observation is that if Dick gets to the spam on
Google Groups before I do :-), those posts are 
marked as spam.  I strongly doubt that designation
gets outside of Google.  I also am under the 
impression that cancels on usenet have been pretty 
much ineffective for decades...although I could
be wrong...

    -Ken