[Info-vax] pedofilo spam

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rqh9pd$ku3$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) writes: 

> 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.

I don't see them either.

> >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.

I once had some spam from Google Groups to a moderated group which I 
co-moderate.  I never could find anyone to talk to.  Very badly run, and 
tries to intentionally create the impression that "Google Groups" is 
something invented by Google, when it is just a (poor) interface to 
usenet.

> 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.

Indeed.  Whatever happened to their old motto?