[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Scott Dorsey]

Chris Townley  <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>With nothing appearing in cov yesterday, I logged onto google groups, 
>and looked at he previous 8 hours - about a 1000 messages, all of which 
>appeared to be spam. So circa 3000 spam per day!

Yes, and it's far worse in comp.protocols.time.ntp.  Thank god for
killfiles!  Usenet would be unreadable now were it not for them.
As it is, the spammer is really just a mild annoyance as it takes a
few seconds more to run the filters when I enter a new group.

Has anybody actually identified the spammer?  I gather he is a man
with a grudge against Usenet users.  Likely not too hard to identify
although Google will never do it themselves of course.  Assuming it
isn't a Google employee.
--scott
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