[Info-vax] pedofilo spam

[Scott Dorsey]

Hein RMS van den Heuvel  <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi folks,
>Al our regular reader some to have been nicely ignoring these  'ARRESTARE L'AVVOCATO PEDOFILO' blah blah blah spam post this group has been the victim of for years now it seems. Great, we don't want to acknowledge and encourage this nonsense do we now?

I don't see them.  Checking things out, it appears that these are spam
messages injected from Google Groups, and most sites discard them.  Most
Usenet spam originates from Google Groups since it is so incompetently run.

>Lately the frequency of these annoyance seems to have picked up.
>Is there perhaps a group administrator or moderator or some such who could stop these?

There is no group administrator, this is Usenet. 

>Admittedly I have NOT investigated how to block this at all hoping someone might have gone there before.

Most competently-run sites block that stuff.  Some of them actually just
dump everything from Google Groups completely because so much of it is
spam.  There is nobody answering the phones at Google Groups and no way
to talk to anyone there, so about the only thing anyone can do is filter
postings from Google.

Google Groups is run by idiots.  The only good thing about them was their
archive, but now they have broken that and the searches no longer work,
so there is really no reason for it to even exist any longer.  Their attempt
to make Usenet look like it's their own proprietary thing is patently
offensive and it should be shut down.
--scott

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