[Info-vax] VMS databases

[Neil Rieck]

On Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 11:21:22 AM UTC-5, Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Saturday, November 18, 2023 at 10:05:47 AM UTC-5, Jay E. Morris wrote: 
> > On 11/18/2023 8:22 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> > > Niel Rieck replied (for some reason the post did not propagate 
> > > to eternal-september, so this is a manual copy from Google Groups): 
> > Ray has had to disconnect GG for a day or two at a time while he deals 
> > with fine tuning Spam Assassin. Some of the worst hit groups are getting 
> > over 5000 spam messages a day, the greatest majority of them from GG. 
> > 
> > In fact, the majority of them may be coming from one spammer on GG. I 
> > haven't gone to look but I understand he's currently taunting Ray on 
> > es.support.
> Curious. I woke up today with an idea to check two others groups that I'm a member of. 
> 
> These groups appear to be clear of the spam seen in comp.os.cov which means that the spamers are being selective. 
> 
> https://groups.google.com/g/bluegriffon 
> https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.blade-runner
> Neil Rieck 
> Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
> https://neilrieck.net/OpenVMS-Programmers-Corner.html

RE: SPAM

FYI, every time I visit https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/ I make it my duty to mark at least 120  pieces of SPAM.

This is easier then you might think. You just click the square box at the top of the page (which selects 30 items), then do a quick scan of items you wish to deselect (they are few), then click the blue circle containing an exclamation. A popup menu will appear, select an item, then click "submit report". Bang. 30 items now flagged.

Not sure if google is running any A.I. to make sense of all this, but Google is now presenting an "I am not a robot" dialog for any submission or reply to cov

Perhaps google will take more action if others repeat what I am doing.

Neil Rieck 
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
https://neilrieck.net