[Info-vax] A cry for help

Grant Taylor gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Fri Nov 24 17:50:47 EST 2023


On 11/24/23 12:08, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Has anybody actually identified the spammer?

It seems to be more than one Google / Gmail account to me.  As such it's 
either one spammer with many Google / Gmail accounts to burn through, or 
more likely multiple spammers.

> I gather he is a man with a grudge against Usenet users.

Given the different type of spam, especially different languages, I 
strongly suspect it's multiple different spammers.

> Likely not too hard to identify although Google will never do it 
> themselves of course.

I suspect it's trivial for teams within Google to take the 
posting-account (?) identifier in the headers and correlate to the 
actual account(s).

> Assuming it isn't a Google employee.

I doubt it.



-- 
Grant. . . .



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