[Info-vax] A cry for help

[Scott Dorsey]

Grant Taylor  <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
>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.

Have you used google?  They just keep issuing new accounts.  Consequently
he has basically an infinite number of accounts available to him.

>> 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.

There is still the normal google spam level from many smaller spammers, but 
the major blast taking place right now appears to be one person and appears
to be some sort of revenge spam.

>> 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).

There are no teams within Google involved.  This is much of the problem.  
Google Groups operates more or less automatically with very little human 
intervention.  If Google actually cared, it would be a trivial problem to
fix but nobody in Google management even realizes Usenet exists.
--scott

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