* ciccio:
Hi,
Is there something we can do against all this spam. The amount we
receive at this news group is getting past bearing.
Any idea's? Any thoughts?
99% or more of Usenet spam originates with Google Groups, and for the avalanche
of spam in the [comp.lang.c++] group the last few weeks it has been 100% of all
spam from Google, quite an achievement for Google...
Since my ISP's newsserver stopped filtering, I've forwarded most of it to
[gr**********@google.com], just on principle.
"Just on principle": it seems that mails to that abuse address are processed
automatically, never seen by monkey.
That is consistent with Google Groups destroying signature delimiters, not
supporting quoting, and not supporting technical feedback.
"Not supporting technical feedback": you're led into a maze of web forms that in
the end don't allow you to give any feedback, and there's no e-mail address.
That's the same scheme Microsoft used to employ: the appearance of supporting
feedback, but in reality only supporting feedback from yay-sayers. Ironically
it's now easier to give technical feedback to the Evil Empire (Microsoft) than
to Do No Evil Google. Which of course might have something to do with that
slogan having been relegated to 12th place or something on their list of mottos.
- Alf
PS1: See also <url: http://improve-usenet.org/>
PS2: As a [comp.lang.c++.moderated] moderator I really should mention that group
as an alternative, but it would be a huge loss for the C++ community & students
if [comp.lang.c++] died due to Google's ineptitude or their blatant evilness.
CC:
gr**********@google.com